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< >Broadband AR for a Cone of Light</P>
/ D& q8 }! j6 n6 z/ Q7 z< >Here we consider a coating on glass that reflects only 0.5% of a cone of light for a range of wavelengths from 420 to 680 nm. The cone axis is normal to the glass. The cone has an F-number of 0.778, which means the half-angle is 40 degrees. An uncoated glass surface reflects 4.4% of this cone of light. We use a feature new to version 3.5: cone-angle targets. As optimization targets we use
, S& G. |) y. A) P4 t< ><BR>R < 0.5% for wavelengths 420, 425, 430,..., 680 and for a 40-degree cone
3 O' v6 V4 q- q- _* w< ><BR>In TFCalc, these targets are easy to enter by using the "Generate Cone Targets" command on the Options menu of the "Targets - Cone Angle" window. We use TFCalc's needle/tunneling optimization to design the coating from "scratch". That is, we begin the design process with a single thin layer of TiO2 and allow TFCalc to increase the thickness and number of layers in the design. TFCalc finds a 6-layer design in a few minutes. The performance of this design is shown below. The little circles indicate the optimization targets.
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SIO2 44.43
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TIO2 30.462 c1 @6 b: D, I$ i
SIO2 104.92
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