Experimental study on a resonance mesh coating fabricated using a UV-lithography technique

In order to achieve high optical transparency and Ka-band bandpass filtering simultaneously, a resonance mesh coating sample is fabricated using a UV-lithography technique. Optical transmission is measured using an Ocean Optics QE65000 spectrometer. And Ka-band bandpass filtering is measured using an Agilent E8363B PNA series network analyzer. Experimental results indicate that the optical transmission of the resonance mesh coating is 63.4% higher than that of non-meshed Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) with equivalent aperture parameters, and the transmittance loss of the coating is lower than 0.21 dB while the coating has a Ka-band resonance frequency of 32 GHz. It can therefore be concluded that the resonance mesh coating can be used as a dual-mode spatial filter to achieve high optical transparency and Ka-band bandpass filtering.