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Optical coating standards

Philip Baumeister

In the 1980s it is evident that the geographical locations of the institutions in North America that train optical engineers are quite diffuse, ranging from Quebec in Canada to as far south as Tucson, Ariz., and Puebla, Mexico. But in the 1940s, the lion's share of the training was in Rochester, N.Y. There were a few physics departments in the U.S. that trained optical physicists such as the University of California, Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.