Effect of annealing on properties and performance of HfO2/SiO2 optical coatings for UV-applications

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作者
Falmbigl, Matthias [1 ]
Godin, Kyle [1 ]
George, Jason [1 ]
Muehlig, Christian [2 ]
Rubin, Binyamin [1 ]
机构
[1] Veeco Instruments Inc, 1 Terminal Dr, Plainview, NY 11803 USA
[2] Fraunhofer Inst Appl Opt & Precis Engn, Albert Einstein Str 7, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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OPTICS EXPRESS | 2022年 / 30卷 / 08期
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10.1364/OE.453345
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The field of ultraviolet (UV)-laser applications is currently experiencing rapid growth in the semiconductor processing, laser micromachining and biomedical markets. Key enablers for these technologies arc optical coatings used to manipulate and guide laser beams in a targeted manner. As laser power, laser fluence and pulse frequencies increase, the demands on the physical properties of the coating materials become more stringent. Ion beam sputtering is a technique that allows producing optical coatings with the low losses required in these applications. In this study, we investigate the influence of ion beam sputtering (IBS) parameters on the optical properties of HfO2 and SiO2 single layers as well as the impact of annealing duration at 475 degrees C for anti-reflective (AR) and highly reflective (HR) optical coatings at 355 nm. For HfO2 sputtered from a metal target the O-2 flow during the coating process is a key parameter to reduce absorption. SiO2 single layers exhibit improved transmission in the UV-range as the ion beam energy for the sputtering process is reduced. Furthermore, a complex behavior for film stress, absorption, surface roughness and coating structure was unraveled as a function of annealing duration for AR- and HR-coatings at 355 nm. The reflectance of the HR-mirror after optimized annealing exceeded 99.94% at 355 nm and a high laser induced damage threshold (LIDT) of 6.9 J/cm(2) was measured after 2 hours of annealing. For the AR-coating a LIDT-value of 15.7 J/cm 2 was observed after 12 hours of annealing. (C) 2022 Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Optica Open Access Publishing Agreement
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