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Design and Characterization Methodology for Efficient Wide Range Tunable MEMS Filters
Published on: February 4, 2018
Summary
This study presents a computer-optimized method for designing dielectric multilayer filters. The approach allows for precise layer thickness selection to achieve desired filter frequency spectra.
Area of Science:
- Optics
- Materials Science
- Computational Physics
Background:
- Dielectric multilayer filters are crucial optical components.
- Optimizing their design for specific spectral characteristics can be complex.
- Existing methods may lack ease of programming or explicit transmittance construction.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present a computationally efficient method for designing dielectric multilayer filters.
- To provide a systematic procedure for constructing electric field transmittance.
- To enable numerical selection of layer thickness for target filter spectra.
Main Methods:
- Development of a computer-programmable design optimization method.
- Formulation of rules for explicit electric field transmittance construction.
- Numerical optimization of layer thickness based on spectral transmittance functions.
Main Results:
- A synthesis procedure for designing dielectric multilayer filters was proposed.
- The method allows for explicit transmittance calculation for thin film filter systems.
- Layer thickness can be numerically determined to match desired filter frequency spectra.
Conclusions:
- The presented method offers an easily programmable approach for dielectric multilayer filter design.
- The developed rules facilitate explicit transmittance construction.
- This facilitates the numerical synthesis of filters with specific spectral properties.
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