Abstract

There are eras in research when days are filled with excitement because unique materials are being produced and researchers “think what nobody else has thought” (Albert von Szent Gyorgyi). Such were the periods when many new optical glasses emerged from the laboratories of the Eastman Kodak Company and when the hot pressing technology was applied to produce new polycrystalline materials. This paper discusses the people and accomplishments of those periods.

© 1972 Optical Society of America

Optical Design at Kodak

R. Kingslake, D. P. Feder, and C. P. Bray
Appl. Opt. 11(1) 50-53 (1972)

Optics in the Kodak Research Laboratories

E. W. Marchand
Appl. Opt. 11(1) 60-63 (1972)

Thermal Expansion Measurements on Four Optical Materials from Room Temperature to 10 K

James Steve Browder and Stanley S. Ballard
Appl. Opt. 11(4) 841-843 (1972)

Data Needs for the Newer Optical Materials

Stanley S. Ballard and John F. Ebersole
Appl. Opt. 11(4) 849-852 (1972)

Apparatus for Measuring the Thermal Expansion of Optical Materials from 30°C to 250°C

John F. Ebersole, Stanley S. Ballard, and James Steve Browder
Appl. Opt. 11(4) 844-848 (1972)