The 'Precessions' tooling for polishing and figuring flat, spherical and aspheric surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 958-964

  Walker, David D ^a,b   Brooks, David ^a   King, Andrew ^a   Freeman, Richard ^b   Morton, Roger ^b   McCavana, Gerry ^b   Kim, Sug Whan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ZEEKO LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTERFEROMETERS; KINETIC ENERGY; LASER ABLATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLISHING; RAY TRACING; SURFACE TREATMENT; TEXTURES;

ASPHERIC SURFACES; FORCE ACTUATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION; SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS;

ASPHERICS;

EID: 1842569080     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000958     Document Type: Article

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