Dichroic laser mirrors with mixture layers and sandwich-like-structure interfaces

Tingting Zeng; Meiping Zhu; Yingjie Chai; Jingping Li; Jianda Shao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.411372

Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 2, 229(2021)

Dichroic laser mirrors with mixture layers and sandwich-like-structure interfaces Editors' Pick

Tingting Zeng^1,2, Meiping Zhu^1,2,3、*, Yingjie Chai⁴, Jingping Li¹, and Jianda Shao^1,2,3,5,6

¹Laboratory of Thin Film Optics, Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou 310024, China

⁴CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

⁵CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai 201800, China

⁶e-mail: jdshao@siom.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Oct. 15, 2020

Accepted: Dec. 11, 2020

Published Online: Jan. 29, 2021

The Author Email: Meiping Zhu (bree@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.411372

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