Abstract
A new photosensitive negative-tone inorganic-organic hybrid SiO 2 /TiO 2 glass with improved linear UV response property is investigated for fabrication of multilevel structures. The UV response of the sol-gel material is studied as a function of optical densities (ODs) of a high-energy beam-sensitive (HEBS) gray-scale mask. It is shown that the sol-gel material exhibits a good linear response to the OD values, which is ultimately used to define the surface profile height for a specific design. The linearity is especially useful for fabrication of diffractive optical elements with linear phase distributions. As an example, we apply the sol-gel process and the gray-scale mask to the fabrication of a blazed grating.
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