ThinFilm Design: Modulated Thickness and Other Stopband Design Methods (SPIE Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering Vol. TT57)

This text presents several new thin-film design methods that can produce multiple stopbands as well as passbands. It is written for thin-film designers and students with advanced knowledge of multilayer, optical thin-film coatings. The text focuses on coatings that have high reflectance performance requirements in more than one spectral wavelength band or region.

Contents

- Preface
- Definitions
- Introduction
- Sinusoidal Thickness Modulated Designs
- Discrete Apodization of TMDs
- Other Complex TMDs
- Quarter-Wave Stack Transformation Method
- Appendix A: Some useful equations for discrete-layer thin-film calculations
- Appendix B: Chebyshev polynomials (0 6th order of the second kind)
- Appendix C: Fortran 90 source code for the determination of all possible TMD stopbands
- Appendix D: Stopband positions for selected TMDs
- Appendix E: Summary of TMD and LOST Equations
- References
- Index