Advanced nanostructured antireflection coatings for high performances IR detector and imaging applications

Ashok K. Sood; John W. Zeller; Parminder Ghuman; Sachidananda Babu; Sarath Gunapala; Alexander Soibel; David Ting; Latika S. Chaudhary; Harry Efstathiadis

doi:10.1117/12.2664957

15 June 2023 Advanced nanostructured antireflection coatings for high performances IR detector and imaging applications

Ashok K. Sood, John W. Zeller, Parminder Ghuman, Sachidananda Babu, Sarath Gunapala, Alexander Soibel, David Ting, Latika S. Chaudhary, Harry Efstathiadis

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Proceedings Volume 12514, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications X; 125140F (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664957
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

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The growth and development of antireflection (AR) coatings comprising alternating optical layers has enabled reduced losses due to reflection of radiation off substrates and optical components, with associated substantial improvements in overall optical and imaging performance for a wide range of devices and applications. A novel means of enhancing transmission for improved detector and system performance has involved the growth of nanostructured optical layers offering tunable refractive index properties that provide broadband and omnidirectional suppression of light reflection/scattering while increasing transmission. These nanostructured AR coatings can be custom designed for specific wavebands from the ultraviolet (UV) to long-wave infrared (LWIR) for various photonic applications, such as when the need for increased sensitivity over a given wavelength range requires maximizing the transmission of light, e.g., onto the surfaces of detectors and imaging devices. We have developed advanced, optimized nanostructured AR coatings fabricated using a proprietary e-beam deposition process on GaSb, Si and various other types of substrates and sensors to provide broadband high AR performance, particularly for IR band sensing applications. These nanostructured coatings provide substantial improvements over conventional thin film AR coating technologies including quarter wavelength stacks by further minimizing reflection losses and increasing transmission over a wide range of light incidence angles on optical detectors and focal plane array (FPA) imaging devices. Here we review the latest developments of this high-performance nanoengineered AR coating technology in view of advancing NASA Earth Science sensing and imaging infrared (IR) band applications.

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Ashok K. Sood, John W. Zeller, Parminder Ghuman, Sachidananda Babu, Sarath Gunapala, Alexander Soibel, David Ting, Latika S. Chaudhary, and Harry Efstathiadis "Advanced nanostructured antireflection coatings for high performances IR detector and imaging applications", Proc. SPIE 12514, Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications X, 125140F (15 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664957

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Antireflective coatings

Nanostructuring

Gallium antimonide

Zinc sulfide

Long wavelength infrared

Mid-IR

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