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Optical System Design: Keeping the Coatings in Mind

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The design of optical systems should balance the coating constraints with the optical and mechanical requirements. Understanding the key properties and limitations of optical coatings enables the system designer to improve the performance of the optical system.

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An optical coating engineer is frequently confronted with a difficult specification for a coating. Often the difficulty in the specification results from the particular form of the optical system. If the optical system designer were to make a simple change to the system, the coating would be a lot less expensive. In some cases however, the coating specification cannot be changed because the system design has been frozen. The purpose of this article is to alert optical system designers to a few simple rules of optical coating, which they can consider early in their design process. ...Read full article

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