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    • Thin Film Center Inc

    Tucson, AZ 85716-5227

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    About Thin Film Center Inc

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    2745 E Via Rotunda
    Tucson, AZ 85716-5227
    United States
    http://www.thinfilmcenter.com
    520-322-6171

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    Specializes in software, training, and consulting for optical coatings. Software includes a professional package with links to machine controllers, and a modest package for occasional users. Courses cover software training and can be customized.

    Products

    Em
    Software, optical

    The Essential Macleod

    The Essential Macleod is a comprehensive software package for the design, analysis, manufacture and trouble shooting of thin film optical coatings. It runs under Microsoft Windows...

    Articles

    (Credit: Angus Macleod)
    Optical coating design expert Angus Macleod passed away on April 29, 2021.
    Optics

    Remembering H. Angus Macleod

    Andreas Thoss
    “It's a small wonder that so many thin filmers have white hair!”
    A dielectric multilayer stack coating, measuring 0.5 μm in total thickness, that has been intentionally released from the optic surface before imaging. The image was taken at 200x using a Nomarski microscope.
    Optics

    Advances in Optical Manufacturing: Measurement considerations when specifying optical coatings

    Pete Kupinski
    Design, specification, and procurement of optical coatings all benefit when the designer has a good understanding of measurement techniques and uncertainties.
    FIGURE 1. Polarizer performance in collimated light shows an extinction ratio as low as 0.000000001; however, in a 4° cone (semi-apex angle), it reaches 0.0012—almost exactly as predicted by the approximate expression.
    Software

    SOFTWARE & COMPUTING: Development of optical thin-film modeling forges ahead

    Dr. Angus Macleod
    We use models in virtually everything we do, and the design and analysis of optical coatings is no exception.
    (Courtesy of Optical Dynamics)
    FIGURE 1. After indentation, a vacuum coating on plastic shows a brittle failure (top; a). Alternatively, no failure is seen after indentation using a vacuum-chamber-free liquid-polymer nanocomposite coating (top; b). The coatings can be tuned for either reflective or antireflective operation (bottom).
    Optics

    PHOTONICS APPLIED: THIN-FILM APPLICATIONS: Coatings for plastic optics step up to meet higher-end applications

    Gail Overton
    Previously considered cheap and disposable, plastic optics have improved in performance and durability, and so too have the coatings that make them function in an increasing number...
    (Courtesy of Thin Film Center Inc.)
    FIGURE 1. In a simple example of process simulation, noise in the optical monitoring signal is simulated during a test of a run sheet for a 40-layer longwave-pass filter.
    Software

    Progress in optical-coating design depends on progress in manufacture

    Dr. Angus Macleod
    Software tools for the design of optical coatings have become indispensable items in the kit of a coating designer. Nowadays these go well beyond straightforward calculation and...
    Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand have used anisotropic antireflection coatings to select the direction of polarization of a helium neon (HeNe) laser beam.
    Software

    Thin-film design software keeps up with the times

    Hassaun A. Jones-Bey
    The demands on software for designing thin-film coatings are shifting significantly in response to new technology development and changing market demands.
    Right-angle prisms with a polarizing beamsplitting coating will be assembled face-to-face to form beamsplitter cubes in distance-measuring interferometers from Zygo Corp. (Middlefield, CT).
    Optics

    Optical coatings enhance system performance

    Laurie Ann Peach
    Careful application of thin layers of coating materials can transform glass, silicon, and other substrates into mirrors, filters, beamsplitters, or sensors.

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