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Pushing the Limits of Broadband and High-Frequency Metamaterial Silicon Antireflection Coatings

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Broadband refractive optics realized from high-index materials provide compelling design solutions for the next generation of observatories for the cosmic microwave background and for sub-millimeter astronomy. In this paper, work is presented which extends the state of the art in silicon lenses with metamaterial antireflection coatings toward larger-bandwidth and higher-frequency operation. Examples presented include octave bandwidth coatings with less than \(0.5\%\) reflection, a prototype 4:1 bandwidth coating, and a coating optimized for 1.4 THz. For these coatings, the detailed design, fabrication and testing processes are described as well as the inherent performance trade-offs.

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This work was supported by a NASA Office of the Chief Technologists Space Technology Research Fellowship # NNX15AP46H. McMahon Lab efforts were supported by NNX13AE56G, NNX14AB58G and DE-SC0015799.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    K. P. Coughlin, J. J. McMahon & S. M. Simon

  2. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA

    K. T. Crowley

  3. Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA

    B. J. Koopman

  4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, USA

    K. H. Miller & E. J. Wollack

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Coughlin, K.P., McMahon, J.J., Crowley, K.T. et al. Pushing the Limits of Broadband and High-Frequency Metamaterial Silicon Antireflection Coatings. J Low Temp Phys 193, 876–885 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-018-1955-7

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