Optical Interference Coating Design Contest 2022: a black box coating and a filter for an outdoor 3D cinema challenge [invited]

The design problems for the Optical Interference Coating (OIC) 2022 Topical Meeting include black box coatings to reverse engineer and a pair of white-balanced, multi-bandpass filters for three-dimensional cinema projection in cold and hot outdoor environments. There were 14 designers from China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States, submitting 32 total designs for problems A and B. The design problems and the submitted solutions are described and evaluated.(c) 2022 Optica Publishing Group

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The paragraph introduces the design problems for the Optical Interference Coating (OIC) 2022 Topical Meeting, which include black box coatings for reverse engineering and white-balanced, multi-bandpass filters for three-dimensional cinema projection in outdoor environments. Fourteen designers from China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States submitted a total of 32 designs for the problems. The design problems and the submitted solutions are described and evaluated.