Ideal cusp-like motheye antireflective structures for chalcogenide optical fibers

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Weiblen, R. Joseph, Catalin Florea, Curtis R. Menyuk, Ishwar D. Aggarwal, Lynda E. Busse, L. Brandon Shaw, and Jasbinder S. Sanghera. “Ideal Cusp-like Motheye Antireflective Structures for Chalcogenide Optical Fibers.” In 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 335–36, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323523.

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We design and optimize ideal motheye structures for mid-infrared As₂S₃ optical fibers. We show that ideal cusp-like features with a half-ellipsoidal or pyramidal shape can achieve average transmission of 99.9% from 2-5 μm.