InhaltsangabePart I: Sol-Gel Processing of Optical Materials. 1. Sol-Gel Processing -- General Principles; E.M. Rabinovich. 2. Sol-Gel Chemistry for Optical Materials; J. Livage, F. Babonneau, C. Sanchez. 3. Sol-Gel Processing of Net Shape Silica Optics; L.L. Hench, J.L. Nogues. 4. Large Silica Monoliths; S.R. Chaudhuri, A. Sarkar. 5. Sol-Gel Fabrication of Glass Fibers for Optics; K. Kamyia. 6. Optical Coating Fabrication; I.M. Thomas. 7. A High Temperature Sol-Gel Process for Glass Formation: Aerosol Doping in Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition; T.F. Morse, A. Kilian, L. Reinhart. 8. Nonsilicate Optical Coatings; D.S. Hagberg, D.A. Payne. 9. Fluoride Optical Materials; R.E. Riman. 10. Nanocomposite Fabrication for Transparent Windows; L.C. Klein. Part II: Applications of Sol-Gel Optics. 11. Single Layer and Multilayer Colored Coatings on Glass; D. Ganguli. 12. Sol-Gel Processing of Ferroelectric Films; M. Sayer, G. Yi. 13. Doped Sol-Gel Films for Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors; M.R. Shahriari, J.Y. Ding. 14. Sol-Gel Encapsulated Molecules: Optical Probes and Optical Properties; J.I. Zink, B. Dunn. 15. Semiconductor-Doped Sol-Gel Optics; M. Nogami. 16. Catalyst Doped Sol-Gel Materials; T. Lopez, R. Gomez. 17. Gel Derived Gradient Index Optics-Aspects of Leaching and Diffusion; T.M. Che, M.A. Banash, P.R. Soskey, P.B. Dorain. 18. Gradient Index (GRIN) Elements by Sol-Gel Interdiffusion; M. Yamane. 19. Photonics and Nonlinear Optics with Sol-Gel Processed Inorganic Glass: Organic Polymer Composites; R. Burzynski, P.N. Prasad. 20. Inorganic-Organic Composites for Optoelectronics; H. Schmidt. 21. Laser Processing of Sol-Gel Coatings; B.D. Fabes. 22. Laser Densification of Micro-Optical Arrays; T. Chia, L.L. Hench. 23. Organically Doped Sol-Gel Porous Glasses: Chemical Sensors, Enzymatic Sensors, Electro-Optical Materials, Luminescent Materials and Photochromic Materials; D. Avnir, S. Braun, O. Lev, D. Levy, M. Ottolenghi. Index.