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As an interesting design exercise, we decided to create two ramp filters. The goal is to
create filters in which the transmittance increases (or decreases) linearly over some
wavelength range. Too make it slightly more difficult, we also require the transmittance
to be 0% and 100% on either side of the ramp.
Here are the specific requirements for the normal-incidence increasing-transmittance ramp filter:
- 400 to 500 nm, T < 2%
- 500 to 700 nm, T increases linearly from <2% to >98%
- 700 to 800 nm, T > 98%
The substrate has index 1.52 and is assumed to have an AR coating on its backside. The incident
medium is air. The coating materials are SIO2 and TIO2.
We use the three continuous optimization targets.
To find the thinnest possible design, we start with a single thin layer of TIO2
and use TFCalc's
needle/tunneling
optimization to design the filter from "scratch". Optimizing this design takes only a minute
or two on a 2.8 GHz Pentium computer. The performance of the 23-layer design is shown here.
For the second design, we just replace transmittance by reflectance in the requirements. The
performance of the filter, which also has 23 layers, is shown here.
If you want a copy of the design files, which will work in the demo version of TFCalc,
please send e-mail to info@sspectra.com.
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