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High-efficiency, multilevel, diffractive optical elements

  • US 4,895,790 A
  • Filed: 09/21/1987
  • Issued: 01/23/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Method for making high efficiency multilevel, diffractive, optical elements comprising:

  • generating a plurality of binary amplitude masks including the multilevel information, the masks being configured to provide 2N levels where N is the number of masks; and

    utilizing the masks'"'"' information serially for serial etching of 2N levels into the optical element, the etching depths for the masks being related by a fixed ratio.

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