Empirical expression for the minimum residual reflectance of normal- And oblique-incidence antireflection coatings

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 3109-3113

  Amotchkina, Tatiana V ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; REFLECTION;

ANTIREFLECTION; AR COATINGS; EMPIRICAL EXPRESSION; INFRARED SPECTRAL; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; RESIDUAL REFLECTANCE;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 49649115520     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.003109     Document Type: Article

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