Download or read book Thin-Film Optical Filters written by H. Angus MacLeod and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-01-26 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very common optical coatings are those that give the faint, reflected color to the lenses in cameras, binoculars, and spectacles. The thin metal layer that makes the difference between a mirror and a simple sheet of glass is an optical coating. But, optical coatings are used in many more applications-a particularly important current one being the s