Dichroic Glass was originally created for the Aerospace industry for Satellite mirrors, but now it has many technical uses including: Lighting, Fiber Optics, Infrared Lazers, Motion Picture Equipment, Sun Glasses, and more .
Dichroic Glass is a multi layer coating placed on glass by using a highly technical vacuum deposition process. Quartz Crystal and Metal Oxides are Vaporized with an electron beam gun in an airless vacuum chamber and the vapor then floats upward and attaches then condenses on the surface of the glass in the form of a crystal structure. Colors have as many as 30 layers of these materials yet the thickness of the total coating is approximately 35 millions of an inch. The coating that is created is very similar to a gemstone and by careful control in thickness, different colors are obtained. Thus, all coatings are created using the same exact materials. The main characteristic of Dichroic Glass is that it has a transmitted color and a completely different reflective color. Furthermore, these two colors shift depending on angle of view.