Manufacturing of super-polished large aspheric/freeform optics

Dae Wook Kim; Chang-jin Oh; Andrew Lowman; Greg A. Smith; Maham Aftab; James H. Burge

doi:10.1117/12.2232237

22 July 2016 Manufacturing of super-polished large aspheric/freeform optics

Dae Wook Kim, Chang-jin Oh, Andrew Lowman, Greg A. Smith, Maham Aftab, James H. Burge

Proceedings Volume 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II; 99120F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232237
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Several next generation astronomical telescopes or large optical systems utilize aspheric/freeform optics for creating a segmented optical system. Multiple mirrors can be combined to form a larger optical surface or used as a single surface to avoid obscurations. In this paper, we demonstrate a specific case of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST). This optic is a 4.2 m in diameter off-axis primary mirror using ZERODUR thin substrate, and has been successfully completed in the Optical Engineering and Fabrication Facility (OEFF) at the University of Arizona, in 2016. As the telescope looks at the brightest object in the sky, our own Sun, the primary mirror surface quality meets extreme specifications covering a wide range of spatial frequency errors. In manufacturing the DKIST mirror, metrology systems have been studied, developed and applied to measure low-to-mid-to-high spatial frequency surface shape information in the 4.2 m super-polished optical surface. In this paper, measurements from these systems are converted to Power Spectral Density (PSD) plots and combined in the spatial frequency domain. Results cover 5 orders of magnitude in spatial frequencies and meet or exceed specifications for this large aspheric mirror. Precision manufacturing of the super-polished DKIST mirror enables a new level of solar science.

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Dae Wook Kim, Chang-jin Oh, Andrew Lowman, Greg A. Smith, Maham Aftab, and James H. Burge "Manufacturing of super-polished large aspheric/freeform optics", Proc. SPIE 9912, Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation II, 99120F (22 July 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2232237

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