"If you want to build a ship, drum together
a group of men, but do not ask them to
get wood, do not assign tasks, and do not
divide the work, just tell them about man's
longing for the wide and endless sea"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Welcome to the Homepage of Dr. Alfred J. Thelen. This site is dedicated to my life's work in
the fascinating field of Optical Interference Coatings. It is currently under construction - and
will be so for the next weeks. You can however in the meantime click on the following link
to download my book Design of Optical Interference Coatings

 
Photo taken from the Annual Report 1979, Optical Coating Laboratory, Inc.
 

Biography

Alfred Josef Thelen - on the Occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday  (PDF)
Article written by J.A. Dobrowolsky for Applied Optics Vol. 45, No. 7 with a list of my publications

Optilayer

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