Numerical methods for the design of gradient-index optical coatings

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 34, 2012, Pages 8277-8295

  Anzengruber, Stephan W ^a   Klann, Esther ^b   Ramlau, Ronny ^b   Tonova, Diana ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

COATINGS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; OPTICAL COATINGS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COATING TECHNOLOGIES; GAUSS-NEWTON METHODS; GRADIENT COATINGS; HOMOGENEOUS LAYERS; ITERATIVE NUMERICAL PROCEDURE; MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION; MULTILAYER STACKS; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84870882007     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.008277     Document Type: Article

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