Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Aug 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998spie.3354..269d&link_type=abstract
Proc. SPIE Vol. 3354, p. 269-280, Infrared Astronomical Instrumentation, Albert M. Fowler; Ed.
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
SubWavelength Structured Surfaces (SWS), by synthesizing effective index of refraction, offer an attractive way to mimic antireflective coating effects. It is of particular interest for some IR materials of high index of refraction such as CdTe or KRS-5. These material are often used for entrance window in cryogenic IR instrument in the 20 microns band. For these materials, multilayer antireflective coatings provide limited performances in transmission, while expected performances of SWS can be very high even for a wavelength range covering both the N and Q atmospheric windows, from 7 microns to 28 microns. The SWS simulates a gradient index layer. Its main parameters are its pitch and its depth. The pitches required depend on the IR material index. For CdTe and KRS5, they are around 3 microns to work in N-band and Q-band and around 6 microns to work only on Q- band, and the depth required is around 10 microns to work till 28 microns. We have tried a new approach to realize these structures by using excimer laser ablation technique. We describe the used technique and our results for different materials such as CdTe, KRS5, CsBr and CsI. Antireflection structured surfaces on CdTe could offer an increase in transmission better than 25 percent at 24 microns. We measured a transmission efficiency of near 96 percent between 23 micrometers and 35 micrometers on KRS-5, and more than 95 percent between 18.5 micrometers and 35.5 micrometers on CsI.
Dubreuil Didier
Harvey Erol C.
Pigot Claude
Rizvi Nadeem H.
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