Optical Materials and Applications

6 Materials for OpticalThin Films

Shibuya Takehisa

Contents

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Brief Theory of Optical Thin Films

6.2.1 Fresnel Coefficients for the Reflection and the Transmission

6.2.2 Reflection of Light from a Single Interface

6.2.3 Reflection of Light from Double Layers or Multilayers

6.3 Design of the Optical Filter

6.3.1 Fundamental Method

6.3.2 Optimization of Multilayer Filters

6.3.3 Needle Method

6.3.4 Step Method

6.3.5 Fourier Transform Method

6.4 Materials for Optical Thin Films

6.4.1 Effective Medium Theories

6.4.2 Optical Filters with an Inhomogeneous Structure

6.4.3 Optical Filter Using Internal or External Structure of the Film

6.4.4 Characteristics of the Optical Film Materials

6.5 Conclusions

References

6.1 Introduction ...