Rapid optical fabrication with computer-controlled optical surfacing

Robert A. Jones; Wiktor J. Rupp

doi:10.1117/12.56019

1 December 1991 Rapid optical fabrication with computer-controlled optical surfacing

Robert A. Jones, Wiktor J. Rupp

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 30, Issue 12, (December 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56019

Abstract

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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Robert A. Jones and Wiktor J. Rupp "Rapid optical fabrication with computer-controlled optical surfacing," Optical Engineering 30(12), (1 December 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56019

Published: 1 December 1991

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