A design method for high order optical thin film filters under boundary conditions
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https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v3i2.230Abstract
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.Full text: PDF
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2011-06-29
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Diehm, B., Gulde, C., & Frühauf, N. (2011). A design method for high order optical thin film filters under boundary conditions. Photonics Letters of Poland, 3(2), pp. 73–75. https://doi.org/10.4302/photon. lett. pl.v3i2.230
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