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2022 Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coatings: Manufacturing Problem Contest

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Author(s)

Catherine Cooksey, Daniel Poitras, Luke Sandilands, Penghui Ma, Stacey Lee, Michael Jacobson

Abstract

Participants to the 2022 Manufacturing Contest were challenged to fabricate an optical filter with a specified stepped transmittance spanning three orders of magnitude from 400 nm to 1100 nm. The problem required that contestants be equally versed in the design, deposition, and measurement of optical filters in order to achieve good results. Nine samples from 5 institutions were submitted for the contest. The fabricated filters had a total thickness between 5.9 µm and 53.5 µm and a total number of layers from 68 to 1743 layers. The performances of the filters were measured by three independent laboratories. The evaluation results were presented at the Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coating conference held in Whistler B.C., Canada, in June 2022.
Citation
Applied Optics
Volume
62
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.477250
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Keywords

Interference coatings, Deposition and Fabrication, Filters
Spectroscopy and Optical physics and communications

Citation

Cooksey, C. , Poitras, D. , Sandilands, L. , Ma, P. , Lee, S. and Jacobson, M. (2023), 2022 Topical Meeting on Optical Interference Coatings: Manufacturing Problem Contest, Applied Optics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.477250, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935622 (Accessed October 15, 2025)

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Created January 11, 2023, Updated January 18, 2023
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