# US 12,181,698 B2 · Optical filter plate

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- Number: US 12,181,698 B2
- Document ID: US12181698B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/517,047
- Filed: 2021-11-02
- Published: 2022-04-21
- Granted: 2024-12-31
- Earliest claimed: 2019-06-05
- Assignees: Xin Yang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Xin Yang Sunny Optics Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Ce Chen; Weihong Ding; Yeqing Fang; Wei Yang; Niangong Xiao
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12181698B2

## CPC

- G02B 5/281: {designed for the infrared light}
- G02B 5/285: {comprising deposited thin solid films (G02B5/281 - G02B5/289 take precedence; multilayered film filters for fibre optic multiplexing G02B6/29361)}
- G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

## Abstract

An optical filter that includes a substrate and a first set of films disposed on a first surface of the substrate, wherein the first set of films includes a high refractive index film layer, a low refractive index film layer, and a matching film layer. A material of the matching film layer includes a nitrogen-doped silicon germanium mixture having a chemical formula SixGe1-xNy, where 0≤x≤1, and 0<y≤0.1. In a wavelength range of 780 nm to 3000 nm, a refractive index of the high refractive index film layer is greater than a refractive index of the low refractive index film layer, and a refractive index of the matching film layer is not equal to a refractive index of its adjacent film layer.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An optical filter, characterized in that, the optical filter comprises a substrate and a first set of films disposed on a first surface of the substrate, wherein the first set of films comprises a high refractive index film layer, a low refractive index film layer, and a matching film layer;
a material of the matching film layer comprises a nitrogen-doped silicon mixture having a chemical formula SiNy, a nitrogen-doped germanium mixture having a chemical formula GeNy, or a nitrogen-doped silicon germanium mixture having a chemical formula SixGe1-xNy, wherein 0<x<1, and 0<y≤0.1;
wherein, in a wavelength range from 780 nm to 3000 nm, a refractive index of the high refractive index film layer is greater than a refractive index of the low refractive index film layer, and a refractive index of the matching film layer is not equal to a refractive index of its adjacent film layer;
wherein along a direction away from the substrate, the first set of films has a structure in one of the following forms:
(L3-L1-L3-L2)s-L3-L1;
(L1-L3)2-(L2-L3-L1-L3)s-L1-L3;
(L1-L3)s-(L2-(L1-L3)p-L1-L2)q-(L1-L3)rL1;
(L3-L1)s-(L2-(L1-L3)p-L1-L2)q-(L3-L1)rL3-L1-(L2-(L1-L3)t-L1-L2)n; or
(L3-L1)s-(L3-L1)rL3-(L2-(L1-L3)p-L1-L2)q-(L3-L1)rL3-(L2-(L1-L3)t-L1-L2)n-(L3-L1)r,
in the structural of the first set of films, L1 represents the high refractive index film layer, L3 represents the low refractive index film layer, L2 represents the matching film layer, p, q, r, and s represent a number of repetitions of a structure in parentheses, wherein p, q, r, and s are integers greater than or equal to 0.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, the optical filter has a passband within a wavelength range of 780 nm to 1200 nm, and a drift amount of a center wavelength of the passband is not greater than 16 nm when an incident angle of light changes from 0° to 30°.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The optical filter according to claim 2, characterized in that, the passband of the optical filter has a center wavelength corresponding to a p light and a center wavelength corresponding to a s light, and when the incident angle of light is 30°, a drift between the center wavelength corresponding to the p light and the center wavelength corresponding to the s light is not greater than 5 nm.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The optical filter according to claim 2, characterized in that, an average transmittance of the passband of the optical filter is not less than 93%.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, the refractive index of the high refractive index film layer is greater than 3, the refractive index of the low refractive index film layer is less than 3, and the refractive index of the matching film layer is between 1.7 and 4.5 in a wavelength range from 780 nm to 1200 nm.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, the nitrogen-doped silicon mixture is further doped with hydrogen and has a chemical formula SiNy:Hz, wherein at least a part of the SiNy:Hz is an amorphous hydrogenated nitrogen-doped silicon mixture α-SiNy:Hz;
the nitrogen-doped germanium mixture is further doped with hydrogen and has a chemical formula GeNy:Hz, wherein at least a part of the GeNy:Hz is an amorphous hydrogenated nitrogen-doped germanium mixture α-GeNy:Hz; and
the nitrogen-doped silicon germanium mixture is further doped with hydrogen and have has a chemical formula SixGe1-xNy:Hz, wherein at least a part of the SixGe1-xNy:Hz is an amorphous hydrogenated nitrogen-doped silicon germanium mixture α-SixGe1-xNy:Hz;
wherein z≤1.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, the nitrogen-doped silicon germanium mixture further comprises an auxiliary component, wherein the auxiliary component comprises one or more of oxygen, boron, or phosphorus, and a ratio of a number of each atom in the auxiliary component to a number of silicon atoms is less than 10%.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, a material of the high refractive index film layer comprises SiwGe1-w:Hv, wherein 0≤w≤1, and 0≤v≤1.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The optical filter according to claim 1, characterized in that, a material of the low refractive index film layer comprises a mixture of one or more of SiO2, Si3N4, Ta2O5, Nb2O5, TiO2, Al2O3, SiCN, or SiC.

### Claim 10 (depends on 4)

The optical filter according to claim 4, characterized in that, the substrate further comprises a second surface facing away from the first surface, wherein the optical filter further comprises a second set of films disposed on the second surface of the substrate;
the second set of films is a set of longwave pass films or a set of wideband pass films, and the first set of films is a set of narrowband pass films, wherein a passband of the second set of films covers a passband of the first set of films.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The optical filter according to claim 10, characterized in that, a sum of a thickness of the first set of films and a thickness of the second set of films is less than 12 μm.

### Claim 12 (depends on 10)

The optical filter according to claim 10, characterized in that, the second set of films is the set of longwave pass films, wherein in a wavelength range of 350 nm to 1200 nm, the set of narrowband pass films has a passband, the set of longwave pass films has a passband and a cut-off band, and the passband of the set of longwave pass films covers the passband of the set of narrowband pass films; and
a blocking of the cut-off band of the set of longwave pass films is not lower than a blocking of a corresponding band of the set of narrowband pass films.

### Claim 13 (depends on 10)

The optical filter according to claim 10, characterized in that, the second set of films is the set of wideband pass films, wherein in a wavelength range of 780 nm to 1200 nm, the set of narrowband pass films has a passband, the set of wideband pass films has a passband, and the passband of the set of wideband pass films covers the passband of the set of narrowband pass films; and
in a wavelength range less than 780 nm, an average blocking of the set of wideband pass films is not lower than an average blocking of the set of narrowband pass films.