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The Simulation, Design, And Fabrication Of Optical Filters, John-Michael Juneau

Graduate Theses - Physics and Optical Engineering

The purpose of this thesis is to create a model for designing optical filters and a method for fabricating the designed filters onto a multitude of substrates, as well as to find ways to optimize this process. The substrates that were tested were quartz, glass slides, polycarbonate, and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This work will account for variations in the deposition process and substrate cleaning method, in order to optimize the performance of the final optical filter. Several different filters were simulated and then fabricated. These filters included 3, 5, and 7-layer Bragg reflectors, 11-layer narrowband filters, and some variations of …