Abstract
In this paper we describe a process for fabricating high aspect ratio gratings in single- or polycrystalline diamond with the high precision required by micro-optics. Nanoimprint lithography with a soft stamp and several layers of hard masks allowed for rapid and accurate replication of patterns written by e-beam or laser into thick Al masks on diamond substrates as large as 2cm in diameter. Vertical sidewalls in the mask were crucial for avoiding microvilli formation during diamond plasma etching and were achieved by etching and oxidizing the Al mask in cycles. Circularly symmetric half-wave plates for wavelength bands around 4 and 11μm were fabricated with deep circular gratings on one side and antireflective gratings on the other.
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