A design method for high order optical thin film filters under boundary conditions

Authors

  • Bastian Diehm Lehrstuhl für Bildschirmtechnik
  • C. Gulde
  • N. Frühauf

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v3i2.230

Abstract

This paper presents an efficient search method for equivalent thin film filter realization to a given design under boundary conditions. To calculate realizations, the algorithm presented in [1] is used and the boundary conditions are given in the form of refractive index intervals. Since the number of possible solutions increases exponentially with the number of film layers, only a small part of them can be checked for boundary conditions in a reasonable time. The method presented here uses the results of a Monte Carlo simulation and Yen's algorithm. The time consuming simulation is conducted only once for given boundary conditions. Since the boundary conditions depend on the fabrication process this method saves a significant amount of time during filter design.

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Author Biography

Bastian Diehm, Lehrstuhl für Bildschirmtechnik

Dipl.-Ing. Bastian Diehm
Institut für Systemtheorie und Bildschirmtechnik
Lehrstuhl für Bildschirmtechnik

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2011-06-29

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B. Diehm, C. Gulde, and N. Frühauf, “A design method for high order optical thin film filters under boundary conditions”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 3, no. 2, pp. pp. 73–75, Jun. 2011.

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2011)

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