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 - Spherical, conical and toroidal surface sag profiles
 - Ruled surfaces, constant and variable line spacing
 - Circular, rectangular, and polygonal apertures
+- multilayer reflectivity and transmissivity
 - n-dimensional configurations of the optical system using [named-arrays](https://github.com/sun-data/named-arrays)
 - uncertainity propagation using [named-arrays](https://github.com/sun-data/named-arrays)
 
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 An [example](https://optika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_autosummary/optika.systems.SequentialSystem.html#optika.systems.SequentialSystem)
 of how to raytrace a Newtonian telescope using Optika:
 
-![Newtonian telescope example](https://optika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/optika.systems.SequentialSystem_0_0.png)
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+![Newtonian telescope example](https://optika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/optika.systems.SequentialSystem_0_0.png)
+
+Compute the [reflectivity of a multilayer mirror](https://optika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_autosummary/optika.materials.multilayer_efficiency.html#optika.materials.multilayer_efficiency)
+by specifying the materials and thicknesses of the layers.
+
+![multilayer example](https://optika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/optika.materials.multilayer_efficiency_1_0.png)
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