Optical Glass

S.N. Houde-Walter

Progress in optics has been coupled to progress in glass from the time of Galileo's first telescope. In recent years, glass has been repeatedly reincarnated as a still more important class of optical materials. Its use and our understanding of its nature are changing in ways that were unimaginable 20 years ago.

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