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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Volkmar Gillich, Neuhausen, CH;
Assignee:
Alusuisse Technology & Management, Ltd., Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ; G02B / ; G02B / ; F21V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359359 ; 359584 ; 359884 ;
Abstract
Reflector having a composite reflectivity-enhancing layer as reflecting surface layer on a reflector body where the said composite layer has an outer layer facing the radiation to be reflected, the HI-layer, with a refractive index n.sub.2, and, between the reflector body and the outer layer, an LI-layer with a refractive index n.sub.1 which is smaller than n.sub.2 and the LI and HI layers are .lambda./4 layers. The HI-layer is a sol-gel layer and the optical layer thickness d.sub.opt,1 of the LI layer and d.sub.opt,2 of the HI layer are such that