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The Coating Designer (CODE) is an application to assist you in the optical design of thin film coatings. Originally designed for glass coatings it can be used quite generally whenever optical spectra have to be optimized for a certain application (such as optical filters, solar absorbers, ...). It is based on the SCOUT spectrum simulation software and adds some functions important for thin film design. In fact, Coating Designer contains a complete SCOUT. You can directly import SCOUT configurations by setting the import filter to the SCOUT file format.

This documentation is only about the additional features added to SCOUT. It is assumed that the reader is already an experienced user of SCOUT. Help on SCOUT is given in a separate document.

 

The CODE main window looks, except for the background picture, very much like that of SCOUT:

 

 

The introduction of the user guide gives an overview of the additional features of CODE with respect to SCOUT.