title: Fluoride coatings for vacuum ultraviolet reflection filters.
abstract: LaF3/MgF2 reflection filters with a high spectral-discrimination capacity of the atomic-oxygen lines at 130.4 and 135.6 nm, which were employed in vacuum ultraviolet imagers, were prepared by molybdenum-boat thermal evaporation. The optical properties of reflection filters were characterized by a high-precision vacuum ultraviolet spectrophotometer. The vulnerability of the filter's microstructures to environmental contamination and the recovery of the optical properties of the stored filter samples with ultraviolet ozone cleaning were experimentally demonstrated. For reflection filters with the optimized nonquarter-wave multilayer structures, the reflectance ratios R135.6 nm/R130.4 nm of 92.7 and 20.6 were achieved for 7° and 45° angles of incidence, respectively. On the contrary, R135.6 nm/R130.4 nm ratio of 12.4 was obtained for a reflection filter with a standard π-stack multilayer structure with H/L=1/4 at 7° AOI.
authors.forename: Chun
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Mingdong
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Dawei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Bincheng
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li