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Vacuum ultraviolet reflectance filter

US4408825A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 10, 1980
Grant dateOct 11, 1983
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Expiry dateNov 10, 2000

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B5/285
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A reflector which particularly reflects light at a selected peak wavelength in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) region and which absorbs light outside the VUV, particularly in the visible light region consists of a reflective surfaced substrate such as polished aluminum, a dielectric layer over the reflective surface, and a thin film of one or more of the six, non-radioactive metals tungsten, rhenium, osmium, iridium, platinum and gold. The thickness of the dielectric spacer layer is approximately one fifth that of the selected peak wavelength, and a second dielectric layer of the same thickness may be applied over the metallic thin film.

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