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Optical & Optoelectronic Materials Selection Guide：Positioning materials, key metrics, and validation paths along “Generation → Guiding → Control → Readout” (with product navigation and Tables 1–4)

Optical materials can look overwhelmingly diverse—dyes, nonlinear crystals, waveguide resins, photochromic materials, detectors, thin-film coatings, optical glass… Yet within a system, they are essentially doing the same job: first, generate usable light in the target band; then guide it to ...