• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 50, Issue 12, 20210234 (2021)
Weirong Yang, Yongqiang Pan*, and Zhiqi Zheng
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  • School of Photoelectric Engineering, Xi 'an Technological University, Xi 'an 710021, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20210234 Cite this Article
    Weirong Yang, Yongqiang Pan, Zhiqi Zheng. Single-layer film regulation characteristics of particle pollutant scattering from optical surfaces[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(12): 20210234 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In order to reduce the light scattering loss of particle pollutants on the surface of ultra-precision low-loss optical elements, a method of adjusting the surface field intensity distribution by depositing a monolayer film on the optical surface was proposed. The electric field intensity of particle pollutants with a radius of 100 nm above the surface of monolayer SiO2 and monolayer TiO2 thin films of different thicknesses on the ultra-smooth optical surface of K9 glass was theoretically analyzed. The theoretical analysis results show that when the thickness of SiO2 thin film is 137.4 nm and the thickness of TiO2 thin film is 12.3 nm, the surface particle contaminant has the lowest electric field intensity. On this basis, the total scattering loss (S) and bidirectional reflection distribution function (BRDF) of particle pollutants on the surface of optical element, films for SiO2 with a thickness of 137.4 nm and TiO2 with a thickness of 12.3 nm were calculated respectively. The calculated results show that when the light with a wavelength of 632.8 nm is vertically incident, monolayer SiO2 film and monolayer TiO2 film can effectively reduce the BRDF of the surface particles, and the total scattering on the surface of K9 glass can be reduced by 12.40% and 25.04% respectively. The effectiveness of single-layer SiO2 thin film for reducing the scattering of surface particle pollutants is verified by experiments.
    Weirong Yang, Yongqiang Pan, Zhiqi Zheng. Single-layer film regulation characteristics of particle pollutant scattering from optical surfaces[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(12): 20210234
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