Design and elaboration of various multilayer beam splitters

Abstract

Three types of beam splitters: neutral, dichroic and polarizing are designed and elaborated on the base of multilayer interference coatings. The MacNeille’s cube geometry is applied. The software „TFCalc-3.5“ is used for matching the calculated with the measured spectra thus obtaining the optical constants of the vacuum deposited materials and the layer thickness. The technological parameters of the laboratory samples are established as a protocol for their manufacture.