When light enters different transmission materials (such as from air into glass), about 5% will be reflected off. There are many lenses and refractors in the optical sight, which can make the incident light loss up to 30% to 40%.
PVD vacuum coating is a surface treatment process that uses sputtering, evaporation or ion plating techniques to form a thin film on a substrate using titanium, gold, graphite, crystal and other metal or non-metal, gas and other materials in a vacuum.