The Essential Macleod provides a powerful set of tools for designing and analyzing the properties of thin film optical coatings. This 3-day course improves your ability to work effectively with these tools by providing detailed information on the features of the software together with techniques for understanding the behavior of optical coatings.

This Masterclass is a mixture of lectures and hands-on tutorials. The objective is for each student not only to know how to use the Essential Macleod but also to understand the computed results and relate them to real optical coatings. A computer loaded with the latest version of the Essential Macleod is provided for the duration of the course together with a set of notes and slides.

Provisional Syllabus