Anti-Reflection Coatings Part III: Oblique Incidence

Dealing with Non-normal Incidence In the previous post we developed the TMM for the special case of light incident in a direction perpendicular onto a multilayer coating. And as developed in the post before that, our treatment of the reflection and transmission coefficients required nothing more complicated than some commonsense assumptions about the behavior of … More Anti-Reflection Coatings Part III: Oblique Incidence

Anti-Reflection Coatings Part II: The Transfer Matrix Method

The Headache of Multiple Layers In the previous post we calculated the effect of a single dielectric layer placed between air and glass, and showed that with a judicious selection of index and thickness, it would serve as an anti-reflection coating that would pass 100% of the light at a nominal wavelength, and at least … More Anti-Reflection Coatings Part II: The Transfer Matrix Method