Optical Coating Technology

by Philip Baumeister

Overview

Organized around the key subjects associated with functions of optical thin film performance, this professional reference book provides a valuable resource in the field of thin film technology. The information is widely backed up with citations to patents and published literature. Many questions are answered, such as: what are conventions for a given analysis formalism? and, what other design approaches have been tried for this application?

This book represents the experience of Phillip Baumeister's 25 years of teaching classes on Optical Thin Film Technology at the UCLA Extension Program, and at companies worldwide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819453136
Publisher:	SPIE Press
Publication date:	04/28/2004
Series:	SPIE Press Monograph Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	840
Product dimensions:	7.28(w) x 10.28(h) x 2.11(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xix
	Preface	xxi
Chapter 1	How coatings are used and integrated into optical systems
1.1	Fabrication of multilayer interference devices	1
1.2	Nomenclature and general properties	5
1.3	Antireflection coatings	11
1.4	Spectral filtering and narrowband rejection	21
1.5	Filters with broad spectral bandwidth	25
1.6	Bandpasses
1.7	Reflectors--used principally at normal incidence	49
1.8	Beamdividers, dichroics and polarizers	65
1.9	Miscellaneous topics	92
1.10	Appendices
Chapter 2	Fundamentals
2.0	Overview of chapter	1
2.1	Overview of intuitive approach	1
2.2	Reflection and transmission at an interface	6
2.3	Phase shift upon reflection and node of the standing wave	27
2.4	Properties of a multilayer	34
2.5	Design concepts used at nonnormal incidence	59
2.6	Aids to computation	64
2.7	Properties of a stack with equal optical thickness layers	83
2.8	Graphical aids to multilayer design	90
2.9	Standing waves, net flux ratio and absorption	95
2.10	Appendices--Propagation of electromagnetic waves	112
2.11	Appendices	118
Chapter 3	Thin films, the building blocks of multilayers
3.0	Purpose of this chapter	1
3.1	Methods of depositing a thin film--a conceptual view	2
3.2	Deposition methods--hardware and procedures	3
3.3	Overview of physical vapor deposition and film formation	12
3.4	Process parameters influencing optical properties	18
3.5	Criteria for thin film material selection	25
3.6	Survey of coating materials	36
3.7	(Appendix) List of useful coating materials	40
Chapter 4	Reflection reducing coatings
4.0	Introduction	1
4.1	Antireflection coating design by computer optimization	1
4.2	Design methods and evaluation of antireflection coatings	6
4.3	Multiple quarterwave and other narrowband designs	11
4.4	All-dielectric antireflection coatings deposited upon metallic layers	17
4.5	Coatings with broader spectral bandwidth--maximally flat designs	21
4.6	Coating with zero reflectance at two or more wavelengths	25
4.7	Chebyshev antireflection coatings	30
4.8	Step-up and step-down of admittance	32
4.9	Miscellaneous topics	36
4.10	Appendix: Proofs, derivations and designs	47
Chapter 5	Reflectors, edge filters and periodic structures
5.1	Introduction	1
5.2	Analysis of the basic period	7
5.3	"Single-stack" coatings	19
5.4	Edge filter design	58
5.5	Broadband reflectors and rejection filters	68
5.6	Phase shift upon reflection	74
5.7	Miscellaneous topics	80
5.8	Appendices	86
Chapter 6	Beamdividers and polarizers
6.1	Introduction	1
6.2	Nonimmersed linear polarizers containing quarterwave layers	7
6.3	Immersed linear polarizers	15
6.4	Nonpolarizing nonimmersed designs	29
6.5	Nonpolarizing immersed coatings	34
6.6	Miscellaneous topics	41
6.7	Appendices containing derivations	42
6.8	Appendices containing multilayer designs	44
Chapter 7	All-dielectric bandpass filters
7.1	Introduction	1
7.2	Control of the spectral bandwidth	6
7.3	Periodic-structure bandpass design method	11
7.4	Filter design using two components	14
7.5	Periodic structures containing three materials	20
7.6	Microwave design method	28
7.7	Examples of conventional bandpass design	48
7.8	Bandpasses for optical fiber communication	59
7.9	Additional topics	68
7.10	Miscellaneous topics and appendices	91
Chapter 8	Coatings that contain absorbing layers
8.1	Introduction	1
8.2	Bandpass filters--general properties	3
8.3	Design procedures for metal-dielectric bandpass filters	17
8.4	Bandpass filter design examples	21
8.5	Dark mirror absorber	30
8.6	Reflectors	32
8.7	Beamdivider containing silver	33
8.8	Neutral density coatings	34
8.9	Miscellaneous topics	36
Chapter 9	Coating deposition
9.1	Introduction	1
9.2	Cleaning of a substrate prior to coating it	2
9.3	Tooling, initial pumpdown, ion bombardment and heating of substrates	3
9.4	Thin film deposition	9
9.5	Collection of the evaporant upon the substrates	23
9.6	The control of layer thickness during deposition	45
9.7	Mechanical stress in optical coatings	71
9.8	Appendices	75
Chapter 10	Miscellaneous topics
10.0	Overview of chapter	1
10.1	Graphical aids to multilayer design	1
10.2	Optimization	7
10.3	Overall transmittance of an array of coated objects	16
10.4	Performance of coatings--their optical characteristics	29
10.5	Performance of coatings and their non-optical characteristics	36
10.6	Phase relations in multilayers	38
10.7	The influence of a coating upon a transmitted or reflected wavefront	46
Chapter 11	References to the literature
Chapter 12	Notation and definitions of terminology
12.1	Symbols--general comments	1
12.2	Symbols	1
12.3	Glossary of terminology	9
Chapter 13	Index