Aberration Corrected Toroidal Holographic Grating

Specifications and Control

- Ultimate Specification Standard Specification Control
Dimension Up to 300 mm length - -
Radius of Curvature Down to 0.01% 0.5% Calibrated Samples
Slope error Down to 0.5 arcsec rms longitudinal 1 arcsec rms transverse 1 arcsec rms longitudinal 5 arcsec rms transverse Visual interferometric comparison to calibrated sample
Microroughness Down to 2 Å rms 5 Å rms Micromap measurements
Substrate Silicon Zerodur Fused Silica SiC CVD - -
Coating Au Pt AlMgF Ni Cr binding layer Quartz monitoring
Groove Density Optimised with JY proprietary software Moiré Fringes (JY patent) Optical control using recording layout (JY patent)  
Efficiency Groove depth and duty cycle ratio optimised with JY proprietary software    
Groove Depth +/- 5% +/- 10% AFM measurements
c/d Ratio +/- 5% +/- 10% AFM measurements

Examples of Aberration Corrected Plane Holographic Gratings

Size mm Optical surface mm Slope Error arcsec rms Max Microroughness Å rms Coating Substrate
300x50x40 290x40 1 arcsec rms longitudinal 5 arcsec rms transverse Less than 5 Au or Pt Silicon Zerodur Fused Silica
150x30x30 140x20 1 arcsec rms longitudinal 5 arcsec rms transverse Less than 5 Au or Pt Silicon Zerodur Fused Silica
75x15x150 70x10 1 arcsec rms longitudinal 5 arcsec rms transverse Less than 5 Au or Pt Silicon Zerodur Fused Silica

Note: Groove density is obtained by interference of two spherical wavefronts.