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2016 Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coatings: Manufacturing Problem Contest
Published
Author(s)
Catherine C. Cooksey, Daniel Poitras, Li Li, Michael Jacobson
Abstract
For the Manufacturing Problem contest held in conjunction with OSAs 2016 Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coatings, participants were asked to design and fabricate on a provided substrate a coating with very specific (and rather peculiar) reflectance (R) and transmittance (T) spectra covering a wavelength range from 400 to 1100 nm. The problem was selected such that filters with measured spectra close to the targets would necessarily include at least one thin absorbing layer (R+T
Cooksey, C.
, Poitras, D.
, Li, L.
and Jacobson, M.
(2016),
2016 Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coatings: Manufacturing Problem Contest, Applied Optics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.0000C1
(Accessed October 9, 2025)