Optical Coating Technology (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM137)

This book represents the experience of Philip Baumeister's 25 years of teaching classes on Optical Thin Film Technology at the UCLA Extension Program, and at companies worldwide.

Contents

- Foreword

- Preface

- How coatings are used an integrated into optical systems

- Fundamentals

- Thin films, the building blocks of multilayers

- Reflection reducing coatings

- Reflectors, edge filters and periodic structures

- Beamdividers and polarizers

- All-dielectric bandpass filters

- Coatings that contain absorbing layers

- Coating deposition

- Miscellaneous topics

- References to the literature

- Notation and definitions of terminology

- Index