{"id":22909,"date":"2020-05-28T11:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T09:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/?post_type=glossary&#038;p=22909"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:15:11","slug":"optical-coating","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/fachwort\/optische-verguetung\/","title":{"rendered":"Optical coating and coating of lenses and prisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Maximum optical performance thanks to optical coating of lenses and prisms<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Meets light<\/strong>\u00a0to a\u00a0<strong>Glass-air surface<\/strong>\u00a0e.g. with a roof prism), the reflection causes a loss of light. This results in a loss of image brightness, contrast and colour brilliance.<\/p>\n<p>By coating the surface of\u00a0<strong>Lenses and prisms<\/strong>\u00a0In the case of binoculars or riflescopes with a thin layer of metal salts, this reflection can be limited.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a\u00a0<strong>Multilayer coating\u00a0<\/strong>can today more than\u00a0<strong>90 percent light transmission, maximum contrast rendition and colour fidelity\u00a0<\/strong>can be achieved across the entire light spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The uncoated surface of a lens or prism reflects approx. 10% of the incident light, the other 90% of the light passes through this surface. The standard coating of a glass surface with magnesium fluoride (MgF2)\u00a0<strong>(full remuneration<\/strong>\u00a0=\u00a0<strong>FC - Fully Coated<\/strong>) already reduces the reflected light to approx. 4%.<\/p>\n<p>The still further\u00a0<strong>Perfected multi-coating\u00a0<\/strong>(multi remuneration) enables a\u00a0<strong>Light transmission of over 99% in some cases<\/strong>. The multi-coating consists of 7 to 15 individual layers of a special substrate, which is applied to the surface in a complex process.\u00a0<strong>Glasses of the lenses and prisms vapour-deposited<\/strong>\u00a0becomes.<\/p>\n<h3>Coating process - depth of application<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full remuneration<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>FC - Fully Coated<\/strong>): simple coating on all lens surfaces<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multiple remuneration<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>MC -\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Fully Coated<\/strong>): Multiple coating on at least one outer lens surface<\/li>\n<li><strong>Full multiple remuneration\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>FMC - Fully Multi Coated<\/strong>): Multiple coating on all lens surfaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If light hits a glass-air surface (e.g. with a roof prism), the reflection causes a loss of light.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8900,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[950],"class_list":["post-22909","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","glossary-cat-optik-wiki"],"related_terms":"Verg\u00fctung,Beschichtung,fmc,coated,fully,multi,Linsenverg\u00fctung","external_url":"","internal_reference_id":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/22909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/22909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23207,"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/22909\/revisions\/23207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddoptics.shop\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}