Ellipsometric Diagnostics of a Transient Surface Layer in Optical Glass

Authors

  • O. V. Makarenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics, Chair of Optics
  • L. V. Poperenko Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics, Chair of Optics
  • O. I. Zavalistyi Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics, Chair of Optics
  • A. L. Yampolskiy Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Physics, Chair of Optics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.5.442

Keywords:

ellipsometry, glass, inhomogeneous layer, optical profile

Abstract

Optical properties of a transient layer with a broken structure that arises at the surface of optical glass at its treatment have been considered. Rather often, the surface of optical elements is considered to be perfect, although the actual inhomogeneous surface structure can have a significant effect for precision physical experiments or novel technological problems. Furthermore, the simulation of the surface layer structure and the corresponding optical characteristics, as well as the study of a possibility to determine those parameters from the results of optical researches, is also of theoretical interest, which is demonstrated in this work. Ellipsometric measurements of optical glass specimens with a broken surface layer are carried out. When modeling the angular dependences of the ellipsometric parameters tan ф and cos б, the near-surface specimen region is considered as a stack of 500 thin layers, and the matrix method of light reflection in this structure with regard for the interference phenomenon is used in calculations. Five models are tested for the optical profile of a nonuniform layer, whose parameters are fitted to achieve the minimum of the target function describing the discrepancy between the calculated and measured data. It is found that the theoretical models describe the optical properties of the specimens more accurately, if they make allowance for the inhomogeneous surface layer. Nevertheless, the solution of the inverse ellipsometric problem turns out ambiguous, so that additional measurements are required for the final choice of a model that would be adequate to the actual morphological structure of the broken layer to be made. However, the key advantage of the applied method consists in that it allows a direct registration of the optical response of the system.

References

A.A. Novikov, I.A. Khramtsovsky, V.Yu. Ivanov, I.S. Fedorov, A. Turkboev. Ellipsometry of inhomogeneous surface layers of anisotropic optical elements. Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Pribor. 52, 62 (2006) (in Russian).

A.A. Novikov, V.T. Prokopenko. Analysis of accurate and approximate methods for solving the reverse problem of ellipsometry for inhomogeneous surface layers. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 6, 87 (2006) (in Russian).

O.D. Volpian. Optical coatings with longitudinal gradient of refraction index and vacuum-plasma technology of their obtaining. Prikl. Fiz. No. 6, 47 (2012) (in Russian).

A.N. Gorlyak, I.A. Khramtsovsky, V.M. Solonukha. Ellipsometry method application in optics of inhomogeneous media. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 15, 378 (2015) (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.17586/2226-1494-2015-15-3-378-386

A.N. Gorlyak, O.S. Dron, Yu.V. Lisitsyn, A.I. Semenenko. Investigation of disturbed layers of polished optical surface and stresses in adhesive and glueless joints of optical elements by the method of ellipsometry. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 4, 30 (2004) (in Russian).

A.N. Gorlyak, A.G. Novak, V.M. Solonukha, I.A. Khramtsovsky. Optical characteristics definition of optical technology surface elements for their optical connections. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 13, 62 (2013) (in Russian).

A.A. Novikov, V.T. Prokopenko, I.A. Khramtsovsky. Optical properties of the rough surface of optoelectronics elements. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 15, 73 (2004) (in Russian).

A.N. Gorlyak, V.M. Solonukha, I.A. Khramtsovsky. Sectioning method application at ellipsometry of inhomogeneous reflection systems. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 14, 24 (2014) (in Russian).

D.E. Aspnes. Precision bounds to ellipsometer systems. Appl. Opt. 14, 1131 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.14.001131

L.V. Poperenko, V.S. Stashchuk. Fundamentals of Physics of Optotechnique Materials (Kyiv Univ., 2011) (in Ukrainian).

A.L. Yampolskiy, O.V. Makarenko, L.V. Poperenko, V.O. Lysiuk. Ellipsometry of hybrid noble metal-dielectric nanostructures. Semicond. Phys. Quant. Electr. Optoelectr. 21, 412 (2018). https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo21.04.412

G. Hass. Physics of Thin Films: Advances in Research and Development (Academic Press, 1963).

D.E. Aspnes, J.B. Theeten, F. Hottier. Investigation of effective-medium models of microscopic surface roughness by spectroscopic ellipsometry. Phys. Rev. B 20, 3292 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.20.3292

L.A. Apresian, D.V. Vlasov, D.A. Zadorin, V.I. Krasovskii. On the model of an effective medium for particles with a complex structure. Zh. Tekhn. Fiz. 87, 10 (2017) (in Russian).

L.V. Poperenko, Yu.D. Filatov. Optical Surfaces Treatment Technology (Kyiv University Paleographic Centre, 2004) (in Ukrainian).

M.E. Aleksandrov, T.M. Danilova, P.S. Belomutskaya, I.A. Khramtsovsky. Radiation loss determination on the optical elements by ellipsometry and impulse photometry methods. Sci. Techn. J. Inf. Technol. Mech. Opt. 11, 9 (2011) (in Russian).

Published

2019-06-18

How to Cite

Makarenko, O. V., Poperenko, L. V., Zavalistyi, O. I., & Yampolskiy, A. L. (2019). Ellipsometric Diagnostics of a Transient Surface Layer in Optical Glass. Ukrainian Journal of Physics, 64(5), 442. https://doi.org/10.15407/ujpe64.5.442

Issue

Section

Structure of materials

Most read articles by the same author(s)