Antireflection coatings have had the greatest impact on optics. The antireflection (AR) coating is the critically important technology in obtaining high performance of optoelectronic devices. In the present paper, characteristics of the ferroelectric based multilayered antireflection coating systems are investigated. Multilayer antireflection coatings consisting of insulator thin films have been modeled in the region between the 400 nm and 800 nm visible bands of electromagnetic spectrum to reduce reflectance from ferroelectric based substrate.In this type of antireflection coating we can regulate the optical properties of a system by external electric (or thermal field) and design a broadband low reflection coating system for optoelectronic devices. In order to design and simulate the normal incidence wideband visible multilayer AR coatings, we have developed a Fortran software program based upon Fresnell equations. Different types of layers which are two-different materials like ZnSe and ZrO2for even-folded multilayer (two-, four-, six-, eight-, ten-, and twelve-layer) antireflection coatings are used. Ferroelectric material, LiNbO3is used as the substrate. The optical thicknesses of each layer are equal to a quarter-wave thick at a certain wavelength.
The characteristics of a noncoherent-coherent IR image converter that uses pyroelectric effect in LiNbO 3 and the electro-optic effect and photorefraction in Bi 12 XO 20 (X = Ti, Si, Ge) has been analysed theoretically and experimentally. An experimental multilayered structure by which IR radiation can be converted into coherent visible radiation was obtained on the basis of theoretical calculations. The measured threshold sensitivity of the converter, ∼10 −5 W/cm 2 , was found to be comparable to theoretical estimates. The limiting resolution of the readout image was about 0.1 lp/mm. The change in the optical properties is estimated by use of the linear equation of an applied electric field (or polarization) that is not excessively strong.
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