Near index matching enables solid diffractive optical element fabrication via additive manufacturing

Reut Orange kedem; Nadav Opatovski; Dafei Xiao; Boris Ferdman; Onit Alalouf; Sushanta Kumar Pal; Ziyun Wang; Henrik von der Emde; Michael Weber; Steffen J. Sahl; Aleks Ponjavic; Ady Arie; Stefan W. Hell; Yoav Shechtman

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Near index matching enables solid diffractive optical element fabrication via additive manufacturing

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- Near index matching enables solid diffractive optical element fabrication via additive manufacturing
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 10, Pages: 2187-2198(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  2.Lorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  3.Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  4.School of Electrical Engineering Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
  5.School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  6.School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  7.Department of NanoBiophotonics, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany
  8.Department of Optical Nanoscopy, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
- Author bio：
  
  Yoav Shechtman (yoavsh@technion.ac.il)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01277-1
  CLC：
- Published：31 October 2023，
  
  Published Online：12 September 2023，
  
  Received：03 May 2023，
  
  Revised：10 August 2023，
  
  Accepted：28 August 2023
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Orange kedem, R. et al. Near index matching enables solid diffractive optical element fabrication via additive manufacturing. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 2187-2198 (2023).
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Orange kedem, R. et al. Near index matching enables solid diffractive optical element fabrication via additive manufacturing. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 2187-2198 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01277-1.

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Abstract

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) have a wide range of applications in optics and photonics

thanks to their capability to perform complex wavefront shaping in a compact form. However

widespread applicability of DOEs is still limited

because existing fabrication methods are cumbersome and expensive. Here

we present a simple and cost-effective fabrication approach for solid

high-performance DOEs. The method is based on conjugating two nearly refractive index-matched solidifiable transparent materials. The index matching allows for extreme scaling up of the elements in the axial dimension

which enables simple fabrication of a template using commercially available 3D printing at tens-of-micrometer resolution. We demonstrated the approach by fabricating and using DOEs serving as microlens arrays

vortex plates

including for highly sensitive applications such as vector beam generation and super-resolution microscopy using MINSTED

and phase-masks for three-dimensional single-molecule localization microscopy. Beyond the advantage of making DOEs widely accessible by drastically simplifying their production

the method also overcomes difficulties faced by existing methods in fabricating highly complex elements

such as high-order vortex plates

and spectrum-encoding phase masks for microscopy.

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