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Providing insider viewpoints and perspectives unavailable in any other text, this book presents useful guidelines and tools to produce effective coatings and films. Covering subjects ranging from materials selection and process development to successful system construction and optimization, it contains expanded discussions on design visualization, dense wavelength division multiplexing, new coating equipment, electrochromic and chemically active coatings, ion-assisted deposition, and optical monitoring sensitivity. Furnishing real-world examples and know-how, the book introduces Fourier analysis and synthesis without difficult mathematical concepts and equations.

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Provides detailed instructions for designing practical thin film coatings that meet specific requirements, and identifies the limitations of each technology involved. The author covers antireflection coatings, Fourier analysis, typical equipment and materials, and monitoring techniques. The second edition adds new design visualization and optimization techniques, and a review of spectral measuring equipment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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A primarily empirical and graphical rather than mathematical overview for students, novices, and veterans of designing and manufacturing thin film optical coatings. Discusses the principles, the equipment, the materials, and the processes involved, and demonstrates how to optimize the control sensitivity and repeatability of film to achieve desired effects. Also describes an empirically discovered family of functions of index of refraction versus thickness, which allow various antireflection coatings to be selected as needed; and provides novel perspectives on Fourier analysis and synthesis and error correction techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)