Unlike Michael's experience apparently, on my last set of glasses I
got AR coatings after not having had it before, and I found it to be
a huge blessing in one common arena of life: night-time driving. In
addition to the increased transmission, there are definitely less
halos around light sources. I suppose this is because of the
elimination of multiple reflections inside the lenses, which would
probably be exaggerated by the lack of planarity (both the curvature
and the non-smoothness) of the surfaces.
Make sure you get AR coatings on both the outside and inside surfaces
of your lenses if you go with this option! Carl
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Dr. Carl E. Mungan, Asst. Prof. of Physics 410-293-6680 (O) -3729 (F)
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402-5026 mailto:mungan@usna.edu http://physics.usna.edu/physics/faculty/mungan/