Which risk increases when applying pressure to optical coatings?

💡 Explanation

Increased pressure leads to variations in coating thickness, hence decreasing destructive interference performance which enables high reflectance, because precise thickness control is now compromised. Therefore reflectance degrades, rather than improving materials properties under compression.

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