Abstract:With the rapid development of laser blinding weapons, the technique of laser blinding protection has attracted a surge of interest in the research community. Vanadium dioxide(VO2) is a phase change material which has attracted continuous attention in the field of laser protection due to the remarkable change of its optical and electrical properties caused by the reversible phase transition between semiconductor phase and metal phase under appropriate heat, light and field excitation. In this paper, the Drude-Lorentz model was exploited to research the optical constants of VO2. Design and optimization of vanadium-dioxide based multilayer film were carried out to overcome the shortcoming of low transmittance of semiconductor phases of single-layer VO2. Lasers and a fourier infrared spectrometer were adopted to evaluate the characteristics and protective effects of the prepared VO2 film, which verified the promising performance of VO2 for laser blinding protection. Experimental measurement shows that the transmittance of semiconductor phase is greater than 92%, and the infrared switching ratio of multilayer film system before and after the phase transition is more than 98%.