Highly reflecting aluminum-protected optical coatings for the vacuum-ultraviolet spectral range

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 178-183

  Yang, Minghong ^a   Gatto, Alexandre ^a   Kaiser, Norbert ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; MIRRORS; OXIDES; REFLECTION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROGRAPHS;

HIGH-REFLECTANCE; HOMOGENEOUS MULTILAYER; HYBRID MULTILAYER; OXIDE LAYERS; SINGLE FLUORIDE;

OPTICAL COATINGS;

EID: 30844449655     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000178     Document Type: Article

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