CA2399651A1 - Method for producing a grid structure, an optical element, an evanescence field sensor plate, a microtitre plate and an optical communication engineering coupler as well as a device for monitoring a wavelength - Google Patents

Method for producing a grid structure, an optical element, an evanescence field sensor plate, a microtitre plate and an optical communication engineering coupler as well as a device for monitoring a wavelength Download PDF

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CA2399651A1
CA2399651A1 CA002399651A CA2399651A CA2399651A1 CA 2399651 A1 CA2399651 A1 CA 2399651A1 CA 002399651 A CA002399651 A CA 002399651A CA 2399651 A CA2399651 A CA 2399651A CA 2399651 A1 CA2399651 A1 CA 2399651A1
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Abstract

The aim of the invention is to produce a coupling grid that is designed as a line grid having a grid period between 100 nm and 2,500 nm. A substrate (1) is covered with a photosensitive resist layer (10) and is exposed by means of a mercury discharge lamp (11) via a deviation mirror (13, 13') and through a phase mask (14) and approximately under the Littrow angle (.THETA.L) or 0~.
Said layer is arranged in the near field of the phase mask. Said substrate is then structured by means of reactive ion etching and is provided with a transparent layer by means of reactive DC magnetron sputtering, especially pulsed DC sputtering or AC superimposed DC sputtering. The phase mask (14) has previously been structured according to the laser two beam interference method. The inventive method is suitable for producing optical elements, especially evanescence field sensor plates and optical couplers for communication engineering, as very precise grids even having great dimensions can be produced. Said optical elements can be especially used as filters for wavelength multiplexing in optical fibre networks.

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T:\OaHn\T~x~~\Pal~n1\D32BAL\A009\.,~.002.doc D E S C R I P T I O N
PROCESS FOR PRODUCING A GRATING STRUCTURE, OPTICAL
ELEMENT, EVANESCENT FIELD SENSOR PLATE, MICROTITRE
PLATE, AND OPTICAL COUPLER FOR COMMUNICATIONS
TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS DEVICE FOR MONITORING A
WAVELENGTH
Field of the invention The invention relates to a process for producing at least one continuous grating structure according to the preamble of claim 1, an optical element produced with the aid of the process according to the invention, as well as an evanescent field sensor plate and a microtitre plate and an optical coupler for communications technology, furthermore a device for monitoring a wavelength containing such a coupler.
The process according to the invention is suitable for pro-during optical elements with grating structures. Evanescent field sensor plates and microtitre plates produced according to the process can be used in chemical and biomolecular ana-lyses. The applications of optical couplers are in communi-rations technology, and more particularly in data trans-mission via fibre networks. A potential application of a particular coupler according to the invention is in a device for monitoring the wavelength of laser light in a fibre network.
Prior art From EP-A-0 602 829 a process for producing a grating struc-ture on a substrate, for example for a DBR semiconductor laser, is known in which first a phase mask is produced and t:voo~.wt~~eevrata"va~x~v~oo9'me".ao2.a«
then the substrate, e.g. InP, is exposed at the Lithrow angle through the phase mask. The exposure can be to a Hg-Xe arc lamp having a light source diameter of 0.25 mm, three lines around 365 nm wavelength being filtered out. The substrate is located in the near field of the phase mask, i.e. at a distance of at most 10 ~.m.
To produce the phase mask, a quartz substrate is covered with three layers, a photoresist layer, a thin germanium layer and finally a layer of a resist sensitive to electron beams. The uppermost layer is then structured ~y electron beam writing, developing the uppermost layer and removing the unexposed parts. The structure is transferred to the layers underneath by reactive ion etching, initially with CF3Br and then with OZ, and finally to the quartz substrate itself by a further step of reactive ion etching, whereupon the residues of the layers are removed. The grating period may be, for example, between 190 nm and 250 nm. The phase mask may be several centimetres long and the grating may extend over its entire length. However, as a rule, the length of the lines is only 5-20 Vim. Greater lengths are possible but require very long processing times. In prac-tice, gratings of more than 1 mm2 can scarcely be produced with reasonable effort and good accuracy. In particular, stitching errors can hardly be avoided during electron beam writing.
From US-A-5 675 691 a plate is known on which coupling gratings are produced by applying a layer of Ti02, Ta205, Hf02, Y203, A1203, Nb205, nitride or oxynitride of Al, Si or Hf to a substrate of glass, in particular quartz glass, ceramic, or predominantly organic material, it being poss-ible to provide a 20 nm thick intermediate layer, e.g. of SiOZ, and to structure it by ablation or modification of the T:\Daten\T~d~\Pafent\al2BAL\AOD9'men.002.doc refractive index by means of exposure to two superimposed beams of an excimer laser or to a beam modified by a mask.
Instead, it is also possible to structure an intermediate layer, e.g. of TiOz, in which the ablation barrier is lower and which is applied either to the layer or directly to the substrate and, in the latter case, is superimposed by the layer after structuring. The grating periods are, for exam-ple, 375 nm or 440 nm. The grating surface area is freely selectable and may be, for example, 1 mm x 1 mm or 8 mm x 8 mm.
From US-A-5 822 472 an evanescent field sensor plate for chemical analyses is known which bears a 40 nm to 160 nm thick layer of Ti02, ZnO, Nb205, Ta205, Hf02 or Zr02 on a support of plastic, glass, or quartz. An intermediate layer of nonluminescent material with a low refractive index, e.g., quartz having a thickness of 100 nm, for example, which at the same time serves as an adhesion promoter, may be arranged in between. An input coupling grating and an output coupling grating are provided which are created by known photolithographic or holographic and etching methods, either in the support or in the layer, and have a grating period of between 200 nm and 1000 nm. The gratings may have dimensions of 2 mm (parallel to the lines) x 4 mm, with a total surface area of the wave-guide plate of 12 mm x 20 mm.
From J. Dubendorfer and R. E. Kunz: "Compact integrated optical immunosensor using replicated chirped coupling grating sensor chips", Applied Optics, 37/10 (1st April 1998), a further evanescent field sensor plate comprising a polycarbonate support plate is known into which a modulated input coupling grating having a grating period varying between 420 nm and 422.8 nm and an output coupling grating 1;\Dotw\laXle\POlen1\p~6At\Il~msn.OM.dx having a grating period varying between 595.1 nm and 600.8 nm were embossed. Thereafter, a Ti02 layer having a thickness of 137 nm and a refractive index of 2.346 was applied by means of low-temperature DC magnetron sputtering, and finally the evanescent field sensor plate was silanised.
The input coupling angle is about -9.5° and the output coupling angle is about 22.5°.
From US-A-5 738 825 a microtitre plate can be gathered which has a 20 nm to 1000 nm, preferably 30 nm to 500 nm thick layer of Ti02, Ta20s, HfOz, Zr02, Si02, Si3N4, A1~03, NbZOs, nitride or oxynitride of Al, Si or Hf applied to its bottom surface, this layer being covered by a plastic layer. Input and output coupling gratings are mounted underneath each cavity. The gratings have a grating period between 330 nm and 1000 nm, in particular about 400 nm to 800 nm, and are produced by lithographic or mechanical methods.
From CH-A-688 165 a wave-guide plate comprising a substrate of plastic, e.g. polycarbonate, is known whose surface was structured mechanically - by deep drawing, embossing or during its injection moulding - and in particular provided with a coupling grating, and bears a layer of TiOz, TazOs, Zr02, A12~3, 51~2-T1~2, Hf~2, Y2O3, Nb2~5, S111COn nltrlde, oxynitride, SiOXNy, HfOXNY, AlOXNy, TiOXNy, MgFz or CaF2 applied by a PVD method. To reduce the attenuation losses, an approximately 20 nm thick intermediate layer applied to the substrate prior to the layer and comprising an inorganic dielectric material such as Si02 is provided which at the same time serves as an adhesion promoter.
All plates described above are produced by processes with which no satisfactory uniformity of the coupling grating can be achieved, so that the coupling angle varies relatively T:\Dol~n\TSxta\Paftnt\032BAL\A009'man.002.doe widely. Consequently, the relative angular position of the exposure unit and plate must be optimised laboriously in each step when the plate is to be used as an evanescent field sensor plate. The filter characteristics are unsatis-5 factory and not sufficient, for instance, for selectively filtering a particular wavelength from a group of very closely spaced wavelengths, when the plate is used as an optical coupler in communications technology. Some of the processes described are also very laborious or do not allow very large numbers of pieces of constant quality to be made.
Summary of the invention It is the object of the invention to provide a process which permits the production, particularly the volume production, of lattice structures with high precision and relatively low effort. This object is achieved by the features in the characterizing clause of Claim 1. Using the process according to the invention it is also possible to produce large-area lattice structures, particularly continuous grat-ing structures which are long in a direction parallel to the lines, with high precision throughout, and in a simple and economical way. Moreover, a large freedom of design is secured with respect to the arrangement and shape of the grating structures. Hence the production of highly different optical elements for diverse applications is feasible with one and the same installations. The process according to the invention furthermore permits the production of large series of optical elements of constant quality and with optical properties such as coupling efficiencies and, in particular, coupling angles which are constant within narrow limits.
Furthermore, a highly precise optical element is to be pro-vided such as can be produced by the process according to T:\DatM\TaM~\Patent\0.728At\A009Lman.002.doc the invention. In particular, the optical element can be formed as an evanescent field sensor plate or as a micro-titre plate based on such a plate. In view of the narrow limits within which, even in long gratings, the coupling angle varies, it is possible to simultaneously illuminate and read out larger parts of the evanescent field sensor plate or microtitre plate. Successive exposure of different parts of the evanescent field sensor plate or microtitre plate is also simplified since reoptimisation of the relative angular position of this plate and the exposing unit is not required or in any case greatly simplified.
The optical element can also be formed as an optical coupler for communications technology. In this case, the high pre-cision present even in large grating structures guarantees excellent filter characteristics, and particularly a very-narrow-band selection of individual wavelengths, so that for instance a wavelength multiplexing involving very closely spaced wavelengths is possible, which raises the trans-mission capacity.
Brief description of the drawings The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to figures merely representing an embodiment.
Fig. 1 shows a plan view of an evanescent field sensor plate according to the invention, having an added top piece indicated by dashed lines so that it becomes a complete microtitre plate, Fig. 2 shows a section along II-II in Fig. 1, T:\Dahn\TeMe\Patent\032BAL\A009'rnan.002.doc i r Fig. 3 schematically shows the use of a microtitre plate comprising an evanescent field sensor plate according to the invention, Fig. 4a-a show different steps in the production of an evanescent field sensor plate according to the invention, Fig. 5 schematically shows the setup used for exposing the photoresist layer during production of the evanescent field sensor plate according to the invention, Fig. 6 shows the photo mask and substrate with the photoresist layer under exposure, and Fig. 7a-g show different steps in the production of a phase mask for the production of an evanescent field sensor plate according to the invention.
Fig. 8a schematically shows a plan view of a first embodiment of an optical coupler for communications technology according to the invention, Fig. 8b schematically shows a central section through the coupler according to Fig. 8a, Fig. 9a schematically shows the reflectivity of the coupler according to the first embodiment, Fig. 9b-d show diagrams showing the selection of a wave-length by the coupler according to the first embodiment, T:\OaNn\Texfe\Pata~t\03~BA1\A009'men,002.doc r t Fig. 10 shows an arrangement with a coupler according to the first embodiment, Fig. 11a schematically shows a plan view of a second embodiment of an optical coupler for communications technology according to the invention, Fig. llb schematically shows a central section through the coupler according to Fig. 11a, Fig. 12 shows an arrangement with a coupler according to the second embodiment, Fig. 13a schematically shows a plan view of a third embodiment of an optical coupler for communications technology according to the invention, Fig. 13b schematically shows a central section through the coupler according to Fig. 13a, Fig. 14 shows a device for monitoring and stabilising the wavelength of a light beam emitted by a laser which comprises a coupler according to the third embodiment, and Fig. 15 shows the transmissivity of the coupler according to the third embodiment as a function of its position on the coupling grating at different wavelengths.

T:\DOHn\Hrta\POlant\0321SA1V.009'men.Op2.doc Description of embodiments The process according to the invention will in the following be explained in more detail in connection with an evanescent field sensor plate and its production. Here, an evanescent field sensor plate is understood as a plate making it poss-ible by illumination of one part of the surface to create an evanescent field in the reach of which a sample to be anal-ysed may be arranged. Therefore, evanescent field sensor plates serve the purposes of chemical analysis. Evanescent fields are nonradiating electromagnetic fields. which fall off and vanish with increasing distance from the scattering surface at which they are generated. Such fields can arise in connection with spatial modulations of the electric field in the plane having periodicities smaller than one wave-length. The best-known example of such a modulation occurs at an interface between a dielectric and air when a light beam coming from the side of the dielectric has an angle of incidence larger than the critical angle.
Evanescent field sensor plates have a transparent light-directing layer from which the evanescent light leaves their surface, and interacts with bound molecules present there, for instance exciting their luminescence. The evanescent field sensor plate consists (Figs. 1, 2, the diagrams are schematic and not to scale) of a glass substrate 1, for example AF 45 of Schott DESAG measuring 102 mm x 72 mm and having a thickness of 0.7 mm, which on one side bears a transparent layer 2 of Ta205 having a thickness of 150 nm.
Its refractive index is 2.11 at a wavelength of 633 nm.
A plurality of coupling gratings 3 in the form of parallel, spaced apart strips which extend parallel to the lines over the entire width of the evanescent field sensor plate are T:\°otM\Ttxlt\PoltM\0.728A1\A009'man.00~.doo arranged on the surface bearing the layer 2. The width of each of the strips is 0.5 mm. The grating period A = 360 nm, the groove-to-land ratio is about 1 . 1, and the grating depth is about 20 nm. The parameters defining the grating 5 are very precisely preserved over the full length of all strips. Consequently, changes in the coupling angle O at which a light beam directed from below through the substrate 1 to the coupling grating 3, in particular a light beam having a wavelength of about 633 nm, is coupled into the 10 layer 2 with maximum coupling efficiency remain within very narrow limits. Along the lines of a coupling gating 3, it changes by at most 0.05°/cm. Over the entire evanescent field sensor plate, the deviation of the coupling angle O
from a mean value which, in the case described, corresponds to 2.31° remains below 0.15°.
The surface of layer 2 is provided with a coating consisting of an adhesion promoter layer, preferably of at least one chemical compound selected from the group of silanes, epox-ides, and self-organising functionalised monolayers, and on top of it a layer of molecular recognition elements such as nucleic acids, antibodies, antigens, membrane receptors, and their ligands.
As shown in Fig. 3 and indicated in Fig. 1, the evanescent field sensor plate is extended by an added honeycomb-like top piece 4 of plastic to form a microtitre plate to be employed for chemical analysis, in particular of biological substances. The top piece has a cover plate 5 which is per-forated by round openings 6 having a diameter of, for example, about 8 mm which are arranged as a regular array.
At the bottom side of cover plate 5, a tube section 7 is attached to each of the openings which is open at the bottom, laterally delimits a cavity 8, and is tightly .

T:~OatM~T~N~Patsnt~0316A1V W09~man.00'l.doc bonded, for example glued, at its lower end to the evanes-cent field sensor plate 2.
If it is intended to investigate the contents of a cavity 8, for instance an analyte such as blood, serum, urine, saliva, or a solution containing a drug candidate, with respect to the concentration of specific molecules, an adjacent coupling grating 3 of the evanescent field sensor plate 2 is exposed in a manner known per se to a suitable light source at the coupling angle O, the light having a specific wavelength, in the example to light with a wavelength of 633 nm, by means of a He-Ne laser. The light is conducted through the layer 2 forming the bottom of the cavity 8 to the adjacent coupling grating 3', and there coupled back out. The evanescent light stimulates fluorescence in molecules in the cavity 8 which are bound to recognition elements, which fluorescence is recorded by an optical system 9 and then analysed. The high precision with which the coupling angle O is preserved over the length of the coupling grating 3 permits a simultaneous and highly efficient examination of the cavities arranged along the same. Since over the entire evanescent field sensor plate 2, the coupling angle O departs but slightly from the mean value, no laborious optimisation of this angle is required even when examining the next row of cavities 8. As an alter-native or in addition to evaluating the fluorescence, one can also record changes in the refractive index produced at the bottom of cavity 8 by the binding of molecules to the recognition elements.
As shown schematically in Figs. 4a-e, to produce the transparent layer 2, one first applies a photoresist, e.g.
AZ1518, diluted 1 . ~ with AZ1500, both of Clariant, at 1300 rpm to the substrate 1 and then bakes for 30 min ~t T:\DaNn\Texte\PalM1\0~26AL\A009'n»n.002.doe 90°C in an oven, whereupon Aquatar of the same manufacturer is applied at 1400 rpm and once again baked for 15 min at 90°C in the oven. The photoresist layer 10 thus produced has a thickness of less than 200 nm, as a rule of about 150 nm, so that interfering standing waves will not develop in it.
The reflectivity is below 1%, so that interfering reflections which could lead to the development of Newton's rings are also practically excluded (Fig. 4a).
In a subsequent step, the photoresist layer 10 is exposed for 70 s. For this purpose, the substrate 1 is. introduced into the setup according to Fig. 5, which is a mask aligner MA4~of Suss, Munich, comprising a modified mercury-vapour lamp 11 having a modified end-stage optical system 12 and folding mirror 13. The optical system 12 comprises a bandpass filter which, for example, filters out the I-line at a wavelength of 365 nm, and a polarizer, which preferably produces s-polarised light. To improve the parallelism of the beams, the fly's eye is removed from the beam path, a lamp with as small an arc as possible is used and is positioned as far away from the substrate as possible.
The exposure occurs through a phase mask 14. It comprises a substrate of transparent material, in the example quartz, with a large-area grating structure, a diffraction grating bearing a layer of nontransparent material, in the example chromium, which is interrupted - in the example, by regu-larly spaced, consecutive strips. Phase masks of this type are supplied by Ibsen in Farum (Denmark), and are manufac-tured approximately as follows:
A quartz substrate 15 is covered with a photoresist layer 16 (Fig. 7a) and the latter is exposed to light using the laser two-beam interference method, and developed (Fig. 7b). Then tvoawn\l.,aa\YOe~nWO3%Al\AOOS'm~.art.doc a full-area diffraction grating is produced on the surface of the quartz substrate 15 by etching and subsequent removal of the photoresist (Fig. 7c). Said surface is then completely covered with a chromium layer 17 (Fig. 7d). A
continuous photoresist layer 18 is then applied to the chromium layer 17 (Fig. 7e) and exposed through a mask structured by electron beam or laser writing. The photo-resist is then developed (Fig. 7f) and the chromium layer 17 is removed by etching from the parts not covered by photo-resist. Finally, the residues of the photoresist layer 18 are removed to finish the phase mask 14 (Fig. 7g). The structure of the mask thus determines which parts of the phase mask are transparent.
The substrate 1 is arranged underneath the phase mask 14 in such a way that the photoresist layer 10 is in vacuum contact with said phase mask. The upper side of the phase mask 14 is exposed at an angle which approximately corre-sponds to the Lithrow angle OL, which is the angle at which the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of first-order diffraction, and in particular deviates by no more than 10°, preferably by no more than 5°, from said angle. Under these conditions, a pronounced diffraction pattern whose structure corresponds to that of the grating of the phase mask 14 forms in the near field below the transparent regions of the phase mask 14 (Fig. 6). Alternatively, the phase mask 14 can also be exposed at an angle which approximately corresponds to 0°, i.e., vertical incidence, or at an angle that does not deviate from it by more than 10°, preferably not by more than 5° (folding mirror 13' shown in dashed lines). In this case, the diffraction pattern in the near field of the phase mask 14 has half the grating period of that mask.

T:\Daf~n\H><N\Pat~nl\032BAL\A009',rtwn.002dx After exposure the Aquatar layer is removed by washing with deionized water, and the photoresist is then developed (Fig.
4b). Those parts of the surface of substrate 1 which are not covered with photoresist are then etched with Ar and CHC1F2 at a pressure of 0.02 mbar in a parallel-plate reactor with capacitive excitation of the plasma at 13.6 MHz and an RF
power of 50 W. The etch depth is 20 nm. The photoresist is then removed. For this purpose, it is first subjected to reactive ion etching for 60 s in an oxygen plasma at a pres-sure of 0.2 mbar and an RF power of 50 W, then detached with Remover AZ100, Deconex, and deionized water (Fig. 4d).
Finally the layer 2 is applied by reactive pulsed DC magne-tron sputtering or by DC magnetron sputtering superimposed with an AC frequency between 1 kHz and 1 MHz, in a Balzers MSP1000 unit, similarly as described in EP-A-0 508 359 (Fig. 4e). This step is carried out in an Ar-02 atmosphere at a pressure of 3.7 ,bar. The target material is tantalum.
Finally, the evanescent field sensor plate is cut to its final size by wafer sawing.
Particularly on account of exposure through a phase mask that can be reused practically as often as desired, the process described permits the production of elements with grating structures, particularly diffractive coupling gratings, in large numbers and in a simple manner. The fact that the phase mask is structured by the two-beam inter-ference method also implies that large defect-free grating structures having surface areas of 10 cma and more can be produced on it with high precision, whereas other structur-ing methods such as electron beam writing are not suitable for this purpose owing to their virtually unavoidable stitching errors. Therefore, large optical elements with large-area gratings of high quality and uniformity can be 1:\Oalen\lad~\Paf~nt\OJ~AAI\AOOQ\wo_~.DOl.doc produced, not only as final products but also as semi-finished plates which by wafer sawing, scribing and breaking or laser cutting can then be separated into smaller final products which thus can be produced very economically and in 5 high quality.
Evanescent field sensor plates can of course also be pro-duced in geometries and optical properties corresponding to other standards or requirements. Thus, another evanescent field sensor plate can have dimensions of 57 mm x 14 mm 10 x 0.7 mm and be provided with two strip-shaped'coupling gratings having a width of 0.5 mm each which are symmetric-ally arranged in parallel with the long sides, and have a mutual distance of 9 mm. The grating period A = 318 nm, the grating depth 12 nm, while otherwise the properties of the 15 layer and coupling gratings are the same as in the first example. In this case the coupling angle O - -12.14° at a wavelength of 633 nm, varying parallel to the lines by at most 0.15°/cm. The deviation from a mean value remains below 0.5° everywhere on the evanescent field sensor plate. For the production of a semifinished plate from which the indi-vidual evanescent field sensor plates are then obtained by water sawing, a phase mask is employed which measures 150 mm x 150 mm and has a region with a grating of grating period 318 nm measuring 115 mm x 115 mm. The regions corre-sponding to the coupling gratings are bare while the remaining portion of the grating is again masked by a nontransparent layer, particularly a chromium layer. Other-wise the production proceeds as described above.
A further example is an evanescent field sensor plate meas-uring 75 mm x 113.5 mm x 0.7 mm which as to its basic features essentially corresponds to Fig. 1, and which bears AMENDED
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T:\D~ot~n\T~#s\POtan~\03~EM\A009'msn.002.r1x 13 strip-shaped coupling gratings each 0.5 mm wide which are parallel to the broadside and have distances between neigh-boring strips of 8.5 mm each. Layer and grating properties correspond to those of the second example. The coupling angle O - -11.48° at a wavelength of 633 nm, varying parallel to the lines by at most 0.05°/cm. Over the entire evanescent field sensor plate it departs from a mean value by at most 0.4°. The evanescent field sensor plate can be expanded to a microtitre plate with 8 x 12 cavities by adding a suitable top portion.
Apart from the embodiments of optical elements having grat-ing structures produced by the process according to the invention and used in chemical analysis, as portrayed above, embodiments for applications in communications technology are particularly pertinent. Such elements are suited above all as highly efficient optical couplers such as those employed in fibre-optic networks.
A first example of such a coupler is represented in Figs. 8a and 8b. On a substrate 1 consisting of a glass plate 19 and a layer 20 of transparent material, a coupling grating 3 formed as a line grating of constant grating period is arranged. The layer 20 is covered by a transparent layer 2, consisting for instance of Ta205. Layer 2 acts as a wave-guide. The coupling grating 3 reflects light of a particular wavelength ~,H according to the wavelength-dependent reflec-tivity R schematically represented in Fig. 9a, while incid-ent light of all other wavelengths is transmitted. This is shown in Figs. 9b-d, where Fig. 9a shows the incident wave-lengths, Fig. 9b the reflected wavelength ~.8, and Fig. 9c the transmitted wavelengths. Using the coupler it is thus possible to filter out a particular wavelength, for instance T:\Dalw\T~M~\PW~nI\O;IIMI\AOOi\,.~.W2.COc in a fibre-optic network using wavelength multiplexing.
Thanks to the high grating quality, the full width at half maximum of the reflectivity R as a function of wavelength is very small. Hence even with wavelengths very closely spaced, it is possible to highly efficiently separate a wavelength.
An example for the use of such a coupler is shown in Fig.
10. Two parallel stripe waveguides 21a, b of known structure are running parallel at a very small mutual distance in a coupling region 22, in such a way that 50 % of the light conducted in the first stripe waveguide 21a is. transferred to the second stripe waveguide 21b, and vice versa. In the final segment of the first stripe waveguide 21a, a coupler 23 with a coupling grating 3 according to Figs. 8a and b is incorporated which selectively reflects light having a wavelength ~,3.
When signals having wavelengths ~,1, ~.2, ~.3. ~.4 etc. are fed into the first stripe waveguide 21a at an input 24, then on one hand 50% of all signals in the coupling region 22 axe transferred to the second stripe waveguide 21b where they are conducted to a first output 25a, while the signals remaining in the first stripe waveguide 21a are conducted to a second output 25b, except for the signal of wavelength ~,3 corresponding to the ~,B according to Figs. 9a-d which is reflected at the coupler 23 so that in the coupling region 22, 50% of its intensity transfer into the second stripe waveguide 21b where the signal is conducted in a direction opposite to that of the signals transferred directly from the first stripe waveguide 21a, and reaches a third output 25c where finally it has been isolated and can be further processed. The signals of outputs 25a and b can be T:\Da1~n\T~KN\PGtMf\~28A~\AOO9'man.001.~ioc recombined to a signal differing from the original one only by a 50 % attenuation of the signal with wavelength ~,3.
The coupler 23 can be completely integrated into the first stripe waveguide 21a, in such a way that this has the same structure as coupler 23 and this coupler forms a single part with the first stripe waveguide 21a. The only distinction of coupler 23 is then its bearing the coupling grating 3.
A second example of a coupler is represented in Figs. lla and b. In a longitudinal direction on top of a~rectangular substrate 1 of glass, for instance Schott DESAG AF 45 with a refractive index of 1.52, two coupling gratings, an input coupling grating 3a and an output coupling grating 3b, are arranged consecutively at a mutual distance, each extending over the full width of the coupler. The input coupling grating 3a has a grating period of A1 = 981 nm and a grating depth of 6 nm, the output coupling grating 3b has a grating period of A2 = 1350 nm and a grating depth of 12 nm. The upper side of substrate 1 is covered by a continuous trans-parent layer 2 consisting of Ta205 and having a refractive index of 2.1. Its thickness is 400 nm.
The coupler can be used as a drop filter monitoring and stabilising the intensity of a light beam, for instance a line of a multimode laser. To this end (Fig. 12), the coupler 23 described above is so arranged between the ends of a first optical fibre 26a and a second optical fibre 26b arranged in the continuation of the former that the input coupling grating 3a faces the end of the latter while the former faces the bottom side of coupler 23. The light supplied by the first optical fibre 26a passes through the part of the coupler 23 carrying the input coupling grating 3a while a fraction of the light of the 1550 nm line T:\Dot~n\ThM\PaNnf\03't&AL\A009\_,msnA02.doc corresponding to less than 0.01 of its intensity is coupled into the layer 2 by said grating. At the output coupling grating 3b, light is coupled out at an angle of 30° and reaches an appropriately disposed photodetector 27 the output signal of which is a measure of intensity of the monitored line. Owing to the high precision of the input coupling grating 3a, the input coupling is highly wavelength-sensitive, the full width at half maximum of the intensity distribution being a mere 0.01 nm, so that a specific monitoring of a single wavelength is possible even where the wavelengths are closely spaced, as desired in wavelength multiplexing in the interest of a high trans-mission capacity.
A third example of an optical coupler according to the invention is represented in Figs. 13a and b. A rectangular substrate 1 consists of a glass plate 19 with a refractive index of 1.586 and a transparent layer 20 of Ti02 with a refractive index of 2.4 covering the upper face of this glass plate in a thickness of 285 nm. The upper face bears a coupling grating 3 occupying its full width which has been produced by removing layer 20 completely in a pattern of lines, and is covered by a further transparent layer 2 consisting of MgFz which is 342 nm thick and has a refrac-tive index of 1.38. The grating depth thus corresponds to the thickness of layer 20, and is 285 nm. The grating period A(x) varies linearly in a direction normal to the grating lines, increasing from A1 = 970 nm to A2 = 97? nm.
When producing the coupler, layers 20 and 2 can be applied as described in connection with the first example of an evanescent field sensor plate. Production of the coupling grating 3 after application of the layer 20 also occurs as described there. In this operation, a phase mask is used 1:\DaHn\7wxb\Palenh~2lAL\AODqLmen.OD2.doe whose grating varies appropriately, hence linearly in the present case. Such phase masks can be produced by appropri-ately bending a flexible master copy and applying a grating structure using the two-beam interference method. The phase 5 mask is derived by replication, that is, by making an impression of the reflattened master copy.
The coupler can advantageously be used in a device for moni-toring and stabilising the wavelength of a laser 28 (Fig.
14) the light of which is fed into a light-conducting fibre 10 29, for instance a glass fibre, of a fibre network. The device comprises a semi-transmissive mirror 30 arranged in the path of the light beam coming from the laser 28, follow-ed by a first optical system 31 to expand, and a second optical system 32 to collimate the part of the light beam 15 deflected by the mirror 30. Following after the optical systems, the coupler 23 described above is arranged in the light beam normal to the beam direction, in such a way that the beam strikes the coupling grating 3. Mounted directly beneath the coupler 23 is a detector system with two photo-20 detectors 33a and b which are arranged so as to be immedia-tely adjacent one behind the other and normal to the lines in such a way that the part of the light beam transmitted by a first portion of the coupling grating 3 where the grating period is between Al and an intermediate value Ai strikes the first photodetector 33a while the part transmitted by the remaining portion of the coupling grating 3 where the grating period is between Ai and AZ strikes the second photodetector 33b. The photodetectors 33a and b can be displaced so that A;, is adj ustable .
The transmissivity of the coupler 23 is a sensitive function of wavelength and of the grating period A. Because of the r:voaW n\T.atvrateM~0326AtAOW'ma,.ao~.doe position-dependent variation of the grating period A(x), therefore, it exhibits a specific wavelength dependence for the incident light which depends on its position. This is shown in Fig. 15, where the transmissivity T can be gathered as a function of position on the coupling grating 3 for three very close wavelengths (1549.5 nm, 1550 nm, 1550.5 nm). The minimum of the transmissivity curve shifts to larger or smaller grating periods as the wavelengths increase or decrease, and hence to a different position on the grating. This in turn gives rise to changes in the relative intensities of the light captured by the photo-detectors 33a and 33b, which has a direct effect on the size of their output signals Ia, Ib.
For the purposes of stabilising a particular wavelength, one can then roughly adjust the position of the detector arrangement in accordance with the wavelength of interest, and then calculate a value Q = (Ia-Ib) ~ (Ia+Ib) and reduce it to zero by shifting the detector arrangement.
Any change in wavelength of the light beam coming from the laser 28 will give rise to a positive or negative deviation of the value of Q from zero, depending on the direction of the wavelength change, and can be compensated by correspond-ing control of the laser 28. The intensity of the light beam is unimportant here. Only the intensity distribution of the expanded light beam which may not be homogeneous but follow a gaussian distribution, for instance, might eventually cause perturbations, but this can then be compensated by appropriate arrangement or extension of the optical systems or by calculation.

T:\DoHn\Ta~M\PafeM\0328A1\A009\.~~~.002.doe The optical elements according to the invention can be modi-fied in many respects without departing from the basic concept of the invention. Thus, in many cases deviations from the mean value of up to 0.3° or even up to 0.5° over the entire element or even over a coupling grating can be admitted. For the evanescent field sensor plates, too, it will often be sufficient when the changes in coupling angle O along the grating lines are not larger than 0.1°/cm.
Many deviations or special adaptations to particular requirements are possible as well in the production process.
Thus, even in the exposure step which is decisive for the process, the photoresist layer may by spaced apart from the phase mask, which facilitates the process. However, it must be arranged in the near field, that is, at a distance which as a rule is smaller than 100 Vim, for the diffraction pattern to be sufficiently pronounced. This distance may perhaps be between 2 ~m and 100 ~.m. Instead of a mercury-vapour lamp, a laser can also be used as the light source, particularly an excimer laser or an argon laser. Apart from Ta205, other substances can be used as materials for the layer, particularly Nb205, Ti02, Zr02, A1203, SiOz-Tit~2, Hf02, Y2O3, SiOXNy, Si3N4, HfOXNY, AlOXNy, TiOXNy, MgF2 oder CaF2.
Ion-enhanced evaporation or plasma-enhanced gas phase deposition can be used as coating methods. Finally, several layers differing in their composition and thickness can be applied consecutively, as described in one of the embodi-ments portrayed.
Phase masks need not be produced directly by the two-beam interference method but can be copied directly or indirectly from a master copy thus produced. They can be used several times with layers interrupted in diverse manner when diverse arrangements of coupling gratings and the like are to be AMENL'~ED
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T:\Dat~n\TaKH\Patenf\0328AL\A009'men.002.doc generated while maintaining a constant grating period.
Instead of a nontransparent layer, a suitable layer of transparent material can also be used. Thus, the grooves of the grating can be filled by a material having the refract-s ive index of the phase mask substrate.
The phase mask can be antireflection-coated. In this case it may not be necessary to apply a reflection-reducing layer to the photoresist layer, which facilitates the production of series of grating structures on the substrates. For anti-reflection, a layer having a refractive index between that of the phase mask substrate and that of air, and for in-stance consisting of MgF2, is applied to the side of the phase mask facing the photoresist layer. At the same time the grating must be adjusted in such a way that the inter-fering diffraction orders of the transmitted light will again have the same intensity. This adjustment can occur by changing the groove-to-land ratio and the grating depth, which are readily calculated with the aid of programmes known among experts.
List of reference symbols 1 Substrate 2 Transparent layer 3 Coupling grating 4 Added top part 5 Cover plate 6 Opening 7 Tube section 8 Cavity 9 Optical system 10 Photoresist layer 11 Mercury-vapour lamp T:\Datan\Texfe\PafanT\0~2EAL\A009\..~.002.doe 12 Optical system 13, 13' Folding mirror 14 Phase mask 15 Quartz substrate 16 Photoresist layer 17 Chromium layer 18 Photoresist layer 19 Glass plate 20 Layer 2la,b Stripe waveguides 22 Coupling region 23 Coupler 24 Input 25a,b,c Outputs 26a,b Optical fibres 27 Photodetector 28 Laser 29 Optical fibre 30 Semi-transmissive mirror 31 First optical system 32 Second optical system 33a,b Photodetectors

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1. Process for producing at least one continuous grating structure formed as a line grating with distances of between 100 nm and 2500 nm between consecutive grating lines on a surface portion of a substrate, by - covering the surface portion with a photoresist layer (10) , - bringing the surface portion into the near field of a phase mask (14) having a grating structure, with the photoresist layer (10) facing this mask, - exposing the phase mask (14) at an angle which departs from the Lithrow angle (.THETA.L) or from 0° by no more than 10°, preferably by no more than 5°, - developing the photoresist layer (10) and subject-ing the surface portion to an etch process to produce the grating structure, - removing the photoresist layer (10), characterised in that a substrate is structured in advance by photolithography with the two-beam inter-ference method and the structure so produced or a structure derived from the same is used as a phase mask (14) for the production of the at least one grating structure and that the extension of the said structure is at least 0.5 cm parallel to the lines.
2. Process according to claim 1, characterised in that the extension of the at least one grating structure is at least 1 cm parallel to the lines.
3. Process according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the surface area of the at least one grating structure on the phase mask is at least 10 cm2.
4. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 3, charac-terised in that the exposure of the photoresist layer (10) is to a mercury-vapour lamp (11).
5. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 3, charac-terised in that the exposure of the photoresist layer (10) is to an excimer laser or argon laser.
6. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 5, charac-terised in that the phase mask (14) comprises a transparent substrate and a layer interrupted in a structured way optically inactivating the grating structure.
7. Process according to one of the claim 6, characterised in that the interrupted layer consists of a nontransparent material, particularly metal, and pre-ferably is a chromium layer (7).
8. Process according to claim 7, characterised in that the substrate is a quartz substrate (15).
9. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 8, charac-terised in that the side of the phase mask (14) facing the photoresist layer (10) is covered by an antireflec-tion layer.
10. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 9, charac-terised in that during the exposure of the photoresist layer (10) the latter is in vacuum contact with the phase mask (14).
11. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 10, charac-terised in that the thickness of the photoresist layer (10) is at most 200 nm.
12. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 11, charac-terised in that the photoresist layer (10) prior to exposure is covered by a reflection-reducing layer.
13. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 12, charac-terised in that during the exposure of the photoresist layer (10), the distance between this layer and the phase mask (14) is between 2 µm and 100 µm.
14. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 13, charac-terised in that the etch process is reactive ion etch-ing, preferably with a gas containing at least one of the following components: Ar, CHClF2, CHF3.
15. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 14, charac-terised in that the material of substrate (1) essen-tially is quartz, silicon, thermally oxidised silicon, germanium, silicon-germanium, a III-V compound semi-conductor, or lithium niobate.
16. Process according to one of the claims 1 to 15, charac-terised in that at least one transparent layer (2) having a refractive index different from that of the substrate is applied to the surface portion after applying the grating structure.
17. Process according to claim 16, characterised in that the grating structure and the transparent layer (2) are formed in such a way that the coupling angle (.THETA.) changes by at most 0.1°/cm along the line and the absolute value of deviation of the coupling angle (.THETA.) from a desired value does not exceed 0.5°.
18. Process according to claim 16 or 17, characterised in that the transparent layer (2) is applied by reactive DC magnetron sputtering, in particular pulsed DC sput-tering or AC-superimposed DC sputtering.
19. Process according to one of the claims 16 to 18, characterised in that the thickness of the transparent layer (2) is between 50 nm and 5000 nm.
20. Process according to one of the claims 16 to 19, characterised in that the material of the transparent layer (2) is Ta2O5, Nb2O5, TiO2, ZrO2, Al2O3, SiO2-TiO2, HfO2, Y2O3, SiO x N y, Si3N4, HfO x N y, AlO x N y, TiO x N y, MgF2 or CaF2 .
21. Optical element, produced by the process according to one of the claims 1 to 20.
22. Evanescent field sensor plate with a platelike sub-strate (1) with, on a surface portion, at least one continuous coupling grating (3) formed as a line grating with a grating period between 150 nm and 2000 nm which parallel to the lines extends over at least 0.5 cm and bears a transparent layer (2) with a refractive index different from that of the substrate (1), characterised in that the coupling angle (.THETA.) changes by at most 0.15°/cm along the line and the absolute value of deviation of the coupling angle (.THETA.) from a desired value on the evanescent field sensor plate does not exceed 0.5°.
23. Evanescent field sensor plate according to claim 22, characterised in that the extension of the coupling grating (3) along the line is at least 1 cm.
24. Evanescent field sensor plate according to claim 22 or 23, characterised in that the surface area of the coupling grating is at least 10 cm2.
25. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 24, characterised in that the coupling angle (.THETA.) changes by at most 0.05°/cm along the line.
26. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 25, characterised in that the absolute value of deviation of the coupling angle (.THETA.) from its mean value on the evanescent field sensor plate does not exceed 0.3°, preferably not 0.15°.
27. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 26, characterised in that the refractive index of the transparent layer (2) is between 1.65 and 2.80.
28. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 26, characterised in that the transparent layer (2) consists of Ta2O5, Nb2O5, TiO2, ZrO2, Al2O3, SiO2-TiO2, HfO2, Y2O3, SiO x N y, Si3N4, HfO x N y, AlO x N y, TiO x N y, MgF2 or CaF2.
29. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 28, characterised in that the thickness of the transparent layer (2) is between 50 nm and 200 nm.
30. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 29, characterised in that the groove-to-land ratio of the at least one coupling grating (3) is between 0.3 : 1 and 3 : 1, preferably between 0.7 : 1 and 1.5 : 1.
31. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 30, characterised in that the grating depth of the at least one coupling grating (3) is between 5 nm and 75 nm.
32. Evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 31, characterised in that the at least one coupling grating (3) covers only part of the surface of the evanescent field sensor plate while a remaining part remains free.
33. Evanescent field sensor plate according to claim 32, characterised in that it has at least one coupling grating (3) formed as a strip extending in parallel to the lines, essentially over the entire width or length of the evanescent field sensor plate.
34. Evanescent field sensor plate according to claim 33, characterised in that several coupling gratings (3) in the form of strips are arranged at a distance parallel to each other.
35. Microtitre plate with an evanescent field sensor plate according to one of the claims 22 to 34 as well as with an added honeycomb-shaped top part (4) which laterally delimits each of the cavities (8) arranged in a regular array, the bottom of each of the cavities being formed by the evanescent field sensor plate.
36. Optical coupler for communications technology with a platelike substrate (1) with, on a surface portion, at least one continuous coupling grating (3) formed as a line grating with a grating period between 100 nm and 2500 nm which parallel to the lines extends over at least 0.5 cm and bears a transparent layer (2) with a refractive index different from that of the substrate (1), characterised in that the absolute value of deviation of the coupling angle (.THETA.) from a desired value on the coupling grating (3) does not exceed 0.5°.
37. Coupler according to claim 36, characterised in that the extension of the coupling grating (3) along the line is at least 1 cm.
38. Coupler according to claim 36 or 37, characterised in that the surface area of the coupling grating (3) is at least 10 cm2.
39. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 38, characterised in that the coupling angle (.THETA.) changes by at most 0.1°/cm along the line of the coupling grating (3) .
40. Coupler according to claim 39, characterised in that the coupling angle (.THETA.) changes by at most 0.05°/cm along the line.
41. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 40, characterised in that the absolute value of deviation of the coupling angle (.THETA.) from its mean value on the surface portion does not exceed 0.3°, and preferably does not exceed 0.15°.
42. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 41, characterised in that the refractive index of the transpartent layer (2) is between 1.65 and 2.80.
43. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 41, characterised in that the transparent layer (2) consists of Ta2O5, Nb2O5, TiO2, ZrO2, Al2O3, SiO2-TiO2, HfO2, Y2O3, SiO x N y, Si3N4, HfO x N y, AlO x N y, TiO x N y, MgF2 or CaF2.
44. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 43, characterised in that the thickness of the transparent layer (2) is between 50 nm and 200 nm.
45. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 44, characterised in that the groove-to-land ratio of the at least one coupling grating is between 0.3:1 and 3:1, preferably between 0.7:1 and 1.5:1.
46. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 45, characterised in that the grating depth of the at least one coupling grating (3) is between 5 nm and 75 nm.
47. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 46, characterised in that the surface portion bears at least two regular coupling gratings (3a, 3b) with different grating periods.
48. Coupler according to one of the claims 36 to 47, characterised in that the surface portion bears at least one irregular coupling grating (3) in which the distance between neighboring grating lines is not constant.
49. Coupler according to claim 48, characterised in that in the irregular coupling grating (3) the grating period only changes in a direction normal to the lines, preferably linearly.
50. Device for monitoring a wavelength with a coupler (23) according to claim 48 as well as with a detector assembly arranged directly beneath the coupler and having at least two photodetectors (33a, 33b) arranged consecutively normal to the lines.
51. Device according to claim 50, characterised in that the detector arrangement can be displaced in a direction normal to the lines relative to the coupler (23).
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