Rapid optical fabrication with computer-controlled optical surfacing.

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Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991opten..30.1962j&link_type=abstract

Opt. Eng., Vol. 30, No. 12, p. 1962 - 1968

Physics

Optics

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In the next decades, we foresee the need for the fabrication of many large aspheric mirrors for space and astronomy applications. Itek Optical Systems has developed computer-controlled optical surfacing for rapidly fabricating such optics. Recently, these operations have been improved with the development of a sheaf of new processes based on a greatly increased understanding of the mechanics of glass surfacing. These improvements have already produced a reduction of large optics surfacing time by a factor of four, and the technology points toward a possible further reduction by a factor of two.

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