A transmission line model for analysis of thin film optical filters

Author

Pieper, R. ; Shirvaikar, M. ; Salvatierra, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., Tyler, TX

fYear

2006

Firstpage

186

Lastpage

191

Abstract

In this paper, an analysis of thin film optical filters with a transmission line model is presented. This analogy is formalized through the transmission line telegraph equations. The predicted propagation phase rule drawn from this analogy is supported by a heuristic argument. A computer model based on transmission lines was developed to simulate various effects. The material presented here includes the optical equivalent of the anti-reflection quarter wave transformer, the application of Butterworth and Chebyshev tables for filter design, the optical tunneling effect, and replication of recently reported thin layer optical design results for angular spatial filtering

Keywords

Butterworth filters; Chebyshev filters; optical filters; thin films; transmission line theory; tunnelling; Butterworth table; Chebyshev tables; angular spatial filtering; optical tunneling effect; telegraph equations; thin film optical filters; transmission line model; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Equations; Optical design; Optical films; Optical filters; Optical materials; Optical propagation; Telegraphy; Transmission lines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 2006. SSST '06. Proceeding of the Thirty-Eighth Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cookeville, TN

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9457-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.2006.1619086

Filename

1619086