Wet-etch figuring for precision optical contouring

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 28, 2003, Pages 5706-5713

  Rushford, Michael C ^a   Britten, Jerald A ^a   Dixit, Shamasunder N ^a   Hoaglan, Curly R ^a   Aasen, Michael D ^a   Summers, Leslie J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; ETCHING; GLASS; POLISHING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TENSION; THERMAL STRESS;

OPTICAL CONTOURING;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0141994330     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005706     Document Type: Article

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