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Preface to the Special Issue of selected papers from Frontiers of Optical Coatings 2014
Thin Solid Films 592 (2015) 215
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Preface to the Special Issue of selected papers from Frontiers of Optical Coatings 2014 The International Conference on Frontiers of Optical Coatings (FOC) is a triennial event taking place in Asia that provides an interactive platform for knowledge exchange among scientists and engineers from industry, research laboratories, and academia. The first Frontiers of Optical Coatings conference occurred in October 2009 in Xi'an, China, and had over 220 attendees and 110 submitted papers. The second FOC conference took place in October 2012 in Hangzhou, China, and included over 200 attendees and 117 submitted papers. The FOC 2014 conference was held on October 20–24, in Tongji University, Shanghai, China. The conference was organized by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Optical Society, Zhejiang University, and Tongji University. Generous financial contributions were provided by Tianjin Jinhang Institute of Technical Physics, the Institute of Optics and Electronics, Optorun Co., Ltd., Bühler Leybold Optics, and Evatec. The co-chairs of the conference were Dr. Christopher Stolz, Professor Norbert Kaiser, Professor Hugh Angus Macleod, Professor Claude Amra, Professor Xu Liu and Professor Zhanshan Wang. They were supported by the program and organization committees. We were happy to welcome 212 colleagues with 148 invited and contributed presentations. All presenters were invited to submit manuscripts, which were rigorously reviewed, to the present Special Issue of Thin Solid Films. The FOC 2014 conference included short courses and three days of technical sessions. Four specialized short courses were offered covering “Recent development in the field of optical coatings — new trends and challenges” (Prof. Norbert Kaiser), “Design, pre-production analysis, computational manufacturing and reverse engineering of optical coatings” (Prof. Alexander Tikhonravov), “Light scattering in multilayer optics” (Prof. Claude Amra), and “Understanding the optical properties of optical coating materials” (Dr. Olaf Stenzel). The technical program comprised 11 technical sessions focused on research and development in thin-film design, novel coating materials, advanced deposition processes, characterization tools and applications, There were a total of 148 oral and poster presentations plus four plenary presentations: Prof. Hugh Angus Macleod on “Advances in Optical coatings”, Prof. Norbert Kaiser on “Recent development in the field of optical coatings from XUV to IR wavelength”, Dr. Christopher Stolz on “Planarization of Coating defects”, and Prof. Wanguo Zheng on “2014 Update on the SG-III laser facility”. The next FOC conference will be held in October 2017, in Beijing, China. We hope that the information from the present published special issue will spark new ideas and applications, and advance our understanding of optical coatings. Today, Asia is experiencing significant growth in both research and industrial thin films due to economic expansion and the availability of an enormous technical workforce. In the coming years, Asia is expected to exhibit the fastest growth in the optical coating market with many
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high-technology companies for optical coatings in this region and researchers from Asia contributing almost the same number of papers as Europe and North America in the field of optical coatings. Optical coatings are regarded as some of the most important components in optical technology, and represent an intensively active research field worldwide in response to new developments in optics. Nanostructured materials and metamaterials are increasingly used in optical devices. Computer simulations have aided in the entire design/production/ reverse-engineering chain and contributed to understanding the basic physics underlying film growth. Coating equipment is increasingly more automated and operated more reliably. Optical coatings find novel applications in space missions, displays and X-ray optics. Further advances in the understanding will lead to new applications of optical thin films in the future. Guest Editors would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors for their high-quality contributions, and would also like to thank the reviewers for their hard work in maintaining the high standard of the journal. Special thanks are due to Editor-in-Chief Prof. J.E. Greene, and Marie-France Pépin, from Thin Solid Films, and Lina Guo, from Elsevier, for their continuous support during the editorial process. Norbert Kaiser Managing Guest Editor Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745 Jena, Germany E-mail addresses: [email protected]; www.iof.fraunhofer.de. Hugh Angus Macleod Guest Editor Thin Film Center Inc 2745 E Via Rotunda, Tucson, AZ 85716-5227, USA E-mail address: angus@thinfilmcenter.com. Xu Liu Guest Editor Department of Optical Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027, China E-mail address: [email protected]. Zhanshan Wang Guest Editor Tongji University 1239 Siping Road Shanghai 200092, P.R. China E-mail address: [email protected].
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Thin Solid Films journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tsf
Preface to the Special Issue of selected papers from Frontiers of Optical Coatings 2014 The International Conference on Frontiers of Optical Coatings (FOC) is a triennial event taking place in Asia that provides an interactive platform for knowledge exchange among scientists and engineers from industry, research laboratories, and academia. The first Frontiers of Optical Coatings conference occurred in October 2009 in Xi'an, China, and had over 220 attendees and 110 submitted papers. The second FOC conference took place in October 2012 in Hangzhou, China, and included over 200 attendees and 117 submitted papers. The FOC 2014 conference was held on October 20–24, in Tongji University, Shanghai, China. The conference was organized by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Optical Society, Zhejiang University, and Tongji University. Generous financial contributions were provided by Tianjin Jinhang Institute of Technical Physics, the Institute of Optics and Electronics, Optorun Co., Ltd., Bühler Leybold Optics, and Evatec. The co-chairs of the conference were Dr. Christopher Stolz, Professor Norbert Kaiser, Professor Hugh Angus Macleod, Professor Claude Amra, Professor Xu Liu and Professor Zhanshan Wang. They were supported by the program and organization committees. We were happy to welcome 212 colleagues with 148 invited and contributed presentations. All presenters were invited to submit manuscripts, which were rigorously reviewed, to the present Special Issue of Thin Solid Films. The FOC 2014 conference included short courses and three days of technical sessions. Four specialized short courses were offered covering “Recent development in the field of optical coatings — new trends and challenges” (Prof. Norbert Kaiser), “Design, pre-production analysis, computational manufacturing and reverse engineering of optical coatings” (Prof. Alexander Tikhonravov), “Light scattering in multilayer optics” (Prof. Claude Amra), and “Understanding the optical properties of optical coating materials” (Dr. Olaf Stenzel). The technical program comprised 11 technical sessions focused on research and development in thin-film design, novel coating materials, advanced deposition processes, characterization tools and applications, There were a total of 148 oral and poster presentations plus four plenary presentations: Prof. Hugh Angus Macleod on “Advances in Optical coatings”, Prof. Norbert Kaiser on “Recent development in the field of optical coatings from XUV to IR wavelength”, Dr. Christopher Stolz on “Planarization of Coating defects”, and Prof. Wanguo Zheng on “2014 Update on the SG-III laser facility”. The next FOC conference will be held in October 2017, in Beijing, China. We hope that the information from the present published special issue will spark new ideas and applications, and advance our understanding of optical coatings. Today, Asia is experiencing significant growth in both research and industrial thin films due to economic expansion and the availability of an enormous technical workforce. In the coming years, Asia is expected to exhibit the fastest growth in the optical coating market with many
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2015.07.001 0040-6090/© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
high-technology companies for optical coatings in this region and researchers from Asia contributing almost the same number of papers as Europe and North America in the field of optical coatings. Optical coatings are regarded as some of the most important components in optical technology, and represent an intensively active research field worldwide in response to new developments in optics. Nanostructured materials and metamaterials are increasingly used in optical devices. Computer simulations have aided in the entire design/production/ reverse-engineering chain and contributed to understanding the basic physics underlying film growth. Coating equipment is increasingly more automated and operated more reliably. Optical coatings find novel applications in space missions, displays and X-ray optics. Further advances in the understanding will lead to new applications of optical thin films in the future. Guest Editors would like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors for their high-quality contributions, and would also like to thank the reviewers for their hard work in maintaining the high standard of the journal. Special thanks are due to Editor-in-Chief Prof. J.E. Greene, and Marie-France Pépin, from Thin Solid Films, and Lina Guo, from Elsevier, for their continuous support during the editorial process. Norbert Kaiser Managing Guest Editor Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF Albert-Einstein-Str. 7, 07745 Jena, Germany E-mail addresses: [email protected]; www.iof.fraunhofer.de. Hugh Angus Macleod Guest Editor Thin Film Center Inc 2745 E Via Rotunda, Tucson, AZ 85716-5227, USA E-mail address: angus@thinfilmcenter.com. Xu Liu Guest Editor Department of Optical Engineering Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310027, China E-mail address: [email protected]. Zhanshan Wang Guest Editor Tongji University 1239 Siping Road Shanghai 200092, P.R. China E-mail address: [email protected].