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Solid organic filters for 2000 A to 3000 A
S F Pellicori1, C A Johnson, F T King
1University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Applied Optics
|January 9, 2010
Abstract:
Earlier work on the development of organic, narrow bandpass solution filters with transmittance maxima in the 2000-3000-A range is extended to the fabrication of solid filters using a polymethyl siloxane resin as the host material. Three transmission filters are described having maxima at 2250 A, 2265 A, and 2840 A, respectively, with bandwidths
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