Optical materials are those materials that are used in the manufacture of lenses, spectacle frames and other objects that have to do with Optics, for example microscopes, telescopes, etc.

Chemistry is the basis for its manufacture, because depending on its composition, optical materials will have certain properties or others. It all depends on the use you want to give it once the product is finished.

Chemically, Optical materials are classified as inorganic and organic.

Of this group, it is worth highlighting the crystalline silicates, which form silicate glasses, which are compounds of silicon dioxide, combined in different ways.