Optical coating technology

Content: Chapter 1. How coatings are used and integrated into optical systems --
1.1. Fabrication of multilayer interference devices --
1.2. Nomenclature and general properties --
1.3. Antireflection coatings --
1.4. Spectral filtering and narrowband rejection --
1.5. Filters with broad spectral bandwidth --
1.6. Bandpasses --
1.7. Reflectors used principally at normal incidence --
1.8. Beamdividers, dichroics and polarizers --
1.9. Miscellaneous topics --
1.10. Appendices. Chapter 2. Fundamentals --
2.0. Overview of chapter --
2.1. Overview of intuitive approach --
2.2. Reflection and transmission at an interface --
2.3. Phase shift upon reflection and node of the standing wave --
2.4. Properties of a multilayer --
2.5. Design concepts used at nonnormal incidence --
2.6. Aids to computation --
2.7. Properties of a stack with equal optical thickness layers --
2.8. Graphical aids to multilayer design --
2.9. Standing waves, net flux ratio and absorption --
2.10. Appendices: Propagation of electromagnetic waves --
2.11. Appendices. Chapter 3. Thin films, the building blocks of multilayers --
3.0. Purpose of this chapter --
3.1. Methods of depositing a thin film, a conceptual view --
3.2. Deposition methods, hardware and procedures --
3.3. Overview of physical vapor deposition and film formation --
3.4. Process parameters influencing optical properties --
3.5. Criteria for thin film material selection --
3.6. Survey of coating materials --
3.7. Appendix: List of useful coating materials. Chapter 4. Reflection reducing coatings --
4.0. Introduction --
4.1. Antireflection coating design by computer optimization --
4.2. Design methods and evaluation of antireflection coatings --
4.3. Multiple quarterwave and other narrowband designs --
4.4. All-dielectric antireflection coatings deposited upon metallic layers --
4.5. Coatings with broader spectral bandwidth, maximally flat designs --
4.6. Coating with zero reflectance at two or more wavelengths --
4.7. Chebyshev antireflection coatings --
4.8. Step-up and step-down of admittance --
4.9. Miscellaneous topics --
4.10. Appendix: Proofs, derivations and designs. Chapter 5. Reflectors, edge filters and periodic structures --
5.1 Introduction --
5.2. Analysis of the basic period --
5.3. Single-stack coatings --
5.4. Edge filter design --
5.5. Broadband reflectors and rejection filters --
5.6. Phase shift upon reflection --
5.7. Miscellaneous topics --
5.8. Appendices. Chapter 6. Beamdividers and polarizers --
6.1. Introduction --
6.2. Nonimmersed linear polarizers containing quarterwave layers --
6.3. Immersed linear polarizers --
6.4. Nonpolarizing nonimmersed designs --
6.5. Nonpolarizing immersed coatings --
6.6. Miscellaneous topics --
6.7. Appendices containing derivations --
6.8. Appendices containing multilayer designs. Chapter 7. All-dielectric bandpass filters --
7.1. Introduction --
7.2. Control of the spectral bandwidth --
7.3. Periodic-structure bandpass design method --
7.4. Filter design using two components --
7.5. Periodic structures containing three materials --
7.6. Microwave design method --
7.7. Examples of conventional bandpass design --
7.8. Bandpasses for optical fiber communication --
7.9. Additional topics --
7.10. Miscellaneous topics and appendices. Chapter 8. Coatings that contain absorbing layers --
8.1. Introduction --
8.2. Bandpass filters, general properties --
8.3. Design procedures for metal-dielectric bandpass filters --
8.4. Bandpass filter design examples --
8.5. Dark mirror absorber --
8.6. Reflectors --
8.7. Beamdivider containing silver --
8.8. Neutral density coatings --
8.9. Miscellaneous topics. Chapter 9. Coating deposition --
9.1. Introduction --
9.2. Cleaning of a substrate prior to coating it --
9.3. Tooling, initial pumpdown, ion bombardment and heating of substrates --
9.4. Thin film deposition --
9.5. Collection of the evaporant upon the substrates --
9.6. The control of layer thickness during deposition --
9.7. Mechanical stress in optical coatings --
9.8. Appendices. Chapter 10. Miscellaneous topics --
10.0. Overview of chapter --
10.1. Graphical aids to multilayer design --
10.2. Optimization --
10.3. Overall transmittance of an array of coated objects --
10.4. Performance of coatings, their optical characteristics --
10.5. Performance of coatings and their non-optical characteristics --
10.6. Phase relations in multilayers --
10.7. The influence of a coating upon a transmitted or reflected wavefront. Chapter 11. References to the literature --
Chapter 12. Notation and definitions of terminology --
12.1. Symbols, general comments --
12.2. Symbols --
12.3. Glossary of terminology --
Chapter 13. Index.