Advances in near field holographic grating mask technology
We report progress on several practical issues of near field holographic (NFH) printing for optoelectronic applications. In particular, we report on the following: adaptation of the mask making process to large area holographically generated grating masks; evaluation of a commercially available UV contact aligner modified to allow routine NFH printing; use of mask copies to avoid excessive wear on original masks; options for reducing the writing time for e-beam generated grating masks; and the application of e-beam generated grating masks to a DFB six-laser array with 200-GHz frequency channel separation.