Outline

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• Introduction
  • Astrophysical motivation (HCI, Polarimetry)
  • Coatings of interest based on astrophysical motivation (dUV - NIR)
    • Protected Ag, Enhanced Al*, else?
  • Coating optimization history (Miller & Pau, MSPI, Lithography paper)
• Methods
  • Poke: Open-source ray-based physical optics
  • Optimization algorithm
• Results
  • Monochromatic performance
  • Broadband performance
• Sensitivity Analysis
  • Monte-Carlo Trials
    • Low-spatial order terms
    • High-frequency noise
  • Tolerances
• Conclusions/Future Work

*This one was brought up during the midpoint presentation to support General Astrophysics in the deep UV

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Closing because outline was migrated to Dissertation project