Simons Observatory: broadband metamaterial antireflection cuttings for large-aperture alumina optics

Golec, Joseph E., Sutariya, Shreya, Jackson, Rebecca, Zimmerman, Jerry, Dicker, Simon R., Iuliano, Jeffrey, McMahon, Jeff, Puglisi, Giuseppi, Tucker, Carole ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-3918 and Wollack, Edward J. 2022. Simons Observatory: broadband metamaterial antireflection cuttings for large-aperture alumina optics. Applied Optics 61 (30) , pp. 8904-8911. 10.1364/AO.472459

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Abstract

We present the design, fabrication, and measured performance of metamaterial antireflection cuttings (ARCs) for large-format alumina filters operating over more than an octave of bandwidth to be deployed at the Simons Observatory (SO). The ARC consists of subwavelength features diced into the optic's surface using a custom dicing saw with near-micrometer accuracy. The designs achieve percent-level control over reflections at angles of incidence up to 20 ∘ . The ARCs were demonstrated on four 42 cm diameter filters covering the 75 to 170 GHz band and a 50 mm diameter prototype covering the 200 to 300 GHz band. The reflection and transmission of these samples were measured using a broadband coherent source that covers frequencies from 20 GHz to 1.2 THz. These measurements demonstrate percent-level control over reflectance across the targeted pass-bands and a rapid reduction in transmission as the wavelength approaches the length scale of the metamaterial structure where scattering dominates the optical response. The latter behavior enables use of the metamaterial ARC as a scattering filter in this limit....

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Date of Acceptance:	19 September 2022
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2023 12:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156649

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