Antireflective structure imprinted on the surface of optical glass by SiC mold

An antireflective structure with two-dimensional 300-nm periodicity was fabricated on a phosphate glass surface using an imprinting process with a SiC mold. The optimized structure designed using RCWA calculation was a convex circular cone sharing the ridge line of adjacent cones. The SiC mold was fabricated using electron beam drawing and subsequent reactive ion etching with CHF3 and O2 gases. The glass’ surface reflectance was estimated as 0.2% at 530 nm wavelength, which was approximately 1/20 that of the optically polished surface.