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To answer to this request we developed coatings working at different angles of incidence and spectral ranges on large surface:
- - anti-reflective coatings for large lenses with strong curvatures,
- - dichroic coatings with sharp transition for large optics.
When an AR coating has failed it is very difficult to recover the low reflectance. In theory adding one or two layers could correct the reflectance but it requires knowing exactly the actual coated stack. For large optics (diameter up to 500 mm), we developed a new technique based on reflectance measurements with different polarizations and incidence angles at one wavelength. The measurements were performed in s-polarized and p-polarized light to discriminate between several solutions. Then a correction based on one or two layers is computed in order to decrease the reflectance. The efficiency of this method is demonstrated in the case of a four-layer AR coating designed for zero reflectance at 1064nm and coated onto a 350mm diameter and 200mm thick substrate. The reflectance has decreased from 500ppm to 26ppm thanks to a correcting bilayer.
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