Homogeneity of the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of ZEDRODUR

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Aug 2005

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Optical Materials and Structures Technologies II. Edited by Goodman, William A. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5868, pp. 241

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The low thermal expansion glass ceramic ZERODUR is the material of choice for many big astronomical telescope projects like VLT, Keck I + II, HET, LAMOST and GRANTECAN (GTC). For future giant telescope projects like OWL or TMT with at least several hundreds of mirror blanks the CTE homogeneity within a single blank and from blank to blank is an crucial issue. The ZERODUR production process is based on established and proven methods used in the production of high homogeneity optical glasses. Therefore ZERODUR itself is a material of highest homogeneity even in large dimensions and huge quantities. This paper presents an evaluation of the homogeneity of the thermal expansion coefficient within more than 250 mirror blanks. The observed homogeneity range is only slightly larger than the repeatability of the standard dilatometer measurement of +/-0.005*10-6 K-1. To improve the accuracy of measurement and to get a deeper understanding of the thermal expansion behaviour of ZERODUR a new dilatometer was built exhibiting a repeatability of +/-0.001*10-6 K-1. Detailed evaluations of the thermal expansion coefficient homogeneity of a 100 mm x 100 mm ZERODUR test block showed no variation within the repeatability of measurement of the improved dilatometer.

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