Practical Design of Optical Thin Films

This book deals with the basic fundamentals understanding and design of optical thin films or interference coatings for practical production. It focuses on one of the main subjects that is critical to meeting the practical challenges of producing optical coatings. This is the design of coatings an understanding of which allows the practitioner to know the possibilities and limitations involved in reducing enhancing or otherwise controlling the reflection transmission and absorption of light (visible or otherwise). This Sixth Edition now includes measurement of index thickness and color; the determination of tooling factors; and the programming of Macros Workbooks and FilmStar Basic.