This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the physics of thin-film optical spectra, bridging the gap between fundamental physics courses, such as optics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics, and the highly specialized literature on the spectroscopy, design, and application of optical thin film coatings.

Thin-film optics is the branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials. [1] In order to exhibit thin-film optics, the thickness of the layers of material must be similar to the coherence length ; for visible light it is most often observed between 200 and 1000 nm of thickness.

The coating usually consists of one or more thin films of material with composition and thickness chosen to give the correct optical properties through a mixture of interference and the natural optical properties of the materials.

The bright colors seen in an oil slick floating on water or in a sunlit soap bubble are caused by interference. The brightest colors are those that interfere constructively. This interference is between light reflected from different surfaces of a thin film; thus, the …

Recent methods of controlling the thickness of films during deposition are given, together with a selection of the more important applications of thin films in optics. These include anti-reflecting and high reflecting systems, narrow-band, wide-band and cut-on multilayer filters, the use of thin films in polarizing systems and the application ...

The present study proposes a method to reconstruct the approximate form of the optical profile of thin gradient films using polynomial functions. The approach relies on experimental spectral and … Expand

2017年1月1日 · The main optical properties of thin films are reviewed, including the use of Fresnel coefficients at media boundaries, reflectance and transmittance, matrix methods and the application of these techniques to the design of antireflection coatings, mirrors and filters.

In this paper we show how the optical response of a dielectric thin film, or stack of thin films (multilayer), can be evaluated. This subject has been studied by several people, particularly in the last decade, since the use of thin films in optics has many and varied applications.

Readers are systematically introduced to the synthesis, processing and application of thin films; they will also study the formation of thin films, their structure and defects, and their various properties — mechanical, electrical, semiconducting, magnetic, and superconducting.

presents a fundamental description of thin-film optical spectra and main mecha-nisms responsible for the optical properties of thin solid films. Along with isotropic thin films, the textbook also discusses optical properties of more complicated structures such as thin films with diffraction gratings, metal-island films,