"This book will serve as a useful reference. The editor and contributors deserve a measure of thanks for their effort to facilitate for us the finding values of the optical constants of 37 solids and for providing an in-one-place summary of several techniques for determination of n and k." — R.M.A. Azzam and Jacqueline Casset in APPLIED OPTICS "The beauty of this book is in the breadth of the spectral range covered...The value of this compilation of critically reviewed optical data far outweighs the book's deficiencies and...this handbook must be regarded as a necessity in any physics or materials science reference library." — David M. Roessler, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren, Michigan, in OPTICAL NEWS "The editor prepared a table that summarizes the optical properties of the materials reviewed in Volumes. I and II. The amount of the detail that it contains is truly astounding...There is a fundamental reason why a book of this type is much more useful than an abbreviated compilation...The book is attractive to workers in many fields because of the vast range of the data." — Philip Baumeister, Coherent Auburn Group, Auburn, California, in OPTICS AND PHOTONICS NEWS "This book is an essential addition to every scientific reference library and to the bookshelves of all who are interested in what is loosely referred to as 'the optical properties of solids"