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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 52, Issue 33, Pages 8102-8105Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.008102
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- NASA [NNX10AC67G]
- Royal Thai Government
- NASA [NNX10AC67G, 135034] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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We have developed epoxy-based, broadband antireflection coatings for millimeter-wave astrophysics experiments with cryogenic optics. By using multiple-layer coatings where each layer steps in dielectric constant, we achieved low reflection over a wide bandwidth. We suppressed the reflection from an alumina disk to 10% over fractional bandwidths of 92% and 104% using two-layer and three-layer coatings, respectively. The dielectric constants of epoxies were tuned between 2.06 and 7.44 by mixing three types of epoxy and doping with strontium titanate powder required for the high dielectric mixtures. At 140 K, the band-integrated absorption loss in the coatings was suppressed to less than 1% for the two-layer coating, and below 10% for the three-layer coating. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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