Recent development of Precessions polishing for larger components and free-form surfaces

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5523, Issue , 2004, Pages 281-289

  Walker, D D ^a,b   Beaucamp, A T H ^b   Brooks, D ^a   Doubrovski, V ^b   Cassie, M ^a   Dunn, C ^a   Freeman, R ^b   King, A ^a   Libert, M ^b   McCavana, G ^b   Morton, R ^b   Riley, D ^b   Simms, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZEEKO LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASSEGRAIN MIRRORS; PRECESSION POLISHING; SURFACE QUALITY; WHIFFLE TREE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PROFILOMETRY; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TORQUE;

POLISHING;

EID: 13444262237     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559531     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. th Annual Meeting, 2000, Vol. 4093 'Current Developments in Lens Optical Design and Engineering'; pp445-448
2. "The Zeeko/UCL Process for Polishing Large Lenses and Prisms" D.D. Walker, R. Freeman, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, J. Simms, D. Brooks, A. King, proc. Large Lenses and Mirrors conference, UCL, March 2001, pub. SPIE, pp 106-111
3. th Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2001, vol. 4451, 2001, pp267-276
4. "Novel CNC polishing process for control of form and texture on aspheric surfaces", D.D. Walker, A.T.H. Beaucamp, D. Brooks, R. Freeman, A. King, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, J. Simms, proc. SPIE 47th Annual Mtg, Seattle, 2002, vol. 4451, pp267-276
5. "The Precessions process for efficient production of aspheric optics for large telescopes and their instrumentation" D.D. Walker, A.T.H. Beaucamp, R.G. Bingham, D. Brooks, R. Freeman, S.W. Kim, A. King, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, J. Simms, Proc. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Meeting, Hawaii, 2002, Vol. 4842, pp73-84
6. 'The ''Precessions' Tooling for Polishing and Figuring Flat, Spherical and Aspheric Surfaces', D.D. Walker, D. Brooks, A. King, R. Freeman, R. Morton, G. McCavana, S-W Kim, Optics Express, Published by Optical Society of America on http://www.opticsexpress.org/. Vol. 11, issue 8, 2003, pp95 8-964
7. th Annual Meeting, the International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, 'Optical Manufacturing and Testing V, San Diego, Vol. 5180, 2003, pp15-28
8. 'First Results on Freeform polishing using the Precessions Process', D. Walker, A. Beaucamp, C. Dunn, R. Freeman, A. Marek, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, ASPE Winter Topical Meeting on 'Free-Form Optics: Design, fabrication, Metrology, Assembly', CD-Rom, ISBN 1-887706-33-X 2004
9. "New Results from the Precessions Polishing Process Scaled to Larger Sizes", D.D. Walker, A.T.H. Beaucamp, D. Brooks, V. Doubrovski, M Cassie, C. Dunn, R. Freeman, A. King, M. Libert, G. McCavana, R. Morton, D. Riley, J. Simms, Proc. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Meeting, Glasgow, 2004, in print