Computer-assisted manual coating design approach

William H. Southwell

doi:10.1117/12.559999

29 September 2004 Computer-assisted manual coating design approach

William H. Southwell

Proceedings Volume 5527, Advances in Thin Film Coatings for Optical Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559999
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

Although coating design software is now quite powerful there are still certain filter designs that benefit from having good starting configurations. This is particularly true when more that two materials are used in the design or when filters function at several angles of incidence. We show in this paper that it is often possible to supply sufficiently good starting designs for the optimization by applying some general principles and having the computer supply the details. This pre-optimization step is accomplished through software specifically designed for particular classes of applications. An example is given for the design of a short wave pass filter that eliminates a harmonic and a dispersion-induced half wave hole in the pass region. Another example uses this design approach for an edge filter operating over a wide angular range.

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William H. Southwell "Computer-assisted manual coating design approach", Proc. SPIE 5527, Advances in Thin Film Coatings for Optical Applications, (29 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.559999

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