I am officially one of those people. The problem is I don’t know which type I am. I go back and forth: am I a bad person or a good…
Recently, during a New Employee Training session, someone brought to my attention that an applicant left a review on Glassdoor in which they described Quantum like a cult. Our…
Earlier this year, our organization decided to try the simple goal-setting technique called OKRs – objectives and key results – that John Doerr shares in his book “Measure What Matters.”…
On a recent trail running trip down the wild and scenic portion of the Rogue River, I met a group of retired hikers staying at at the same lodge. At…
“Is that mirror a Flash or a Dielectric?” “All bright mirrors are metal mirrors.” Have you heard these or maybe said them yourself? Last week I was asked to explain…
The first topic in the headline is self-explanatory but the second? If we take a look at sputter coating, its history, and its advantages and disadvantages, we would be hard…
When a person has been doing a function for some time, they forget the basics. This can happen in a lot of different ways. For me, this has become evident…
When I am on a plane, in an airport or at a dinner and people ask me what I do, I respond by saying, “I bend light and count molecules…
While at a teaching seminar recently, I was discussing AR coatings and their properties relative to different types of lenses. I spoke about refractive index and the effects of index…
With anti-reflective coatings and mirror coatings, the relationship (marriage) between the lens, the hardcoat and the coatings are often misunderstood. In this discussion, I would like to delve a little…
