Abstract:
The effectiveness of using an electron beam vacuum evaporation method is shown together with the optical thickness monitoring for formation of multilayer coatings based on twelve layers of SiO$_2$+ZrO$_2$ with high degree of polarization. The developed design of the polarization coating is based on refractory oxides for the wavelength $\lambda=660$ nm. It can be used to form polarizers operating as reflective and transmissive optical elements as parts of laser systems.
Keywords:polarizer, electron beam evaporation, refractory oxides, multilayer optical coatings.