Stressed mirror annular polishing for scale-down TMT primary segments

Xinnan Li; Zibo Jiang; Xuefei Gong; Haiying Zhang; Kunxing Chen; Yi Zheng; Bo Li; Binbin Yu; Chen Xu; Bo Ji; Qiuyun Xu

doi:10.1117/12.2231612

22 July 2016 Stressed mirror annular polishing for scale-down TMT primary segments

Xinnan Li, Zibo Jiang, Xuefei Gong, Haiying Zhang, Kunxing Chen, Yi Zheng, Bo Li, Binbin Yu, Chen Xu, Bo Ji, Qiuyun Xu

Proceedings Volume 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 99120A (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231612
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

A new type Stressed Mirror Polishing method using annular polishing machine is developed in NIAOT. It provides good efficiency for the massive production of off-axis segments for the extremely large telescope because 3 or more pieces of segment can be polished simultaneously on a AP machine. With an annular polishing machine with 3.6m diameter, two scale-down TMT segments have been polished. Both 2 segments are Φ1100mm in diameter, with the vertex radius of curvature of 60m and aspheric constant K=-1.000953. The off-axis distances (OAD) are 8m and 12m respectively. After SMAP process, the acceptable surface accuracy can be reached, which is 1.12μm/0.23μm of PV/RMS value for the segment with 8m OAD, and 1.22 μm/0.26 μm for another one.

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Xinnan Li, Zibo Jiang, Xuefei Gong, Haiying Zhang, Kunxing Chen, Yi Zheng, Bo Li, Binbin Yu, Chen Xu, Bo Ji, and Qiuyun Xu "Stressed mirror annular polishing for scale-down TMT primary segments", Proc. SPIE 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 99120A (22 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231612

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