Transmission guided-mode resonance filters based on high reflection multilayer stacks

The transmission guided-mode resonance filters are implemented by integration of diffraction grating into classical thin films to produce high efficiency in the central wavelength and arbitrarily low sideband response over a quite large spectral range. Transmission guided-mode resonance filters require considerable fewer thin films to acquire narrow line width and high peak transmission in the central wavelength compared with classical multilayer high-reflectance coatings with a stack of quarter-wave thickness. The properties of transmission filters with single/double waveguide grating in the different layers of high refection stacks are compared each other. It is demonstrated that the narrow line width transmission filters can be abstained with only two different materials.