Wideband antireflection coatings by combining interference multilayers with structured top layers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 8704-8708

  Schulz, U ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

ANTI-REFLECTION; EFFECTIVE MEDIA; HIGH INDEX MATERIALS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NATURAL MATERIALS; RESIDUAL REFLECTANCE; RESIDUAL REFLECTIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66449120512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008704     Document Type: Article

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