Development of a compression molding process for three-dimensional tailored free-form glass optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 6511-6518

  Yi, Allen Y ^a   Huang, Chunning ^a   Klocke, Fritz ^b   Brecher, Christian ^b   Pongs, Guido ^b   Winterschladen, Markus ^b   Demmer, Axel ^b   Lange, Sven ^b   Bergs, Thomas ^b   Merz, Michael ^b   Niehaus, Frank ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IPT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION MOLDING; GRINDING (MACHINING); MACHINE TOOLS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; POLISHING;

MOLD MAKING; NICKEL-PLATED SURFACES; OPTICAL MOLDS; OPTICAL SURFACE GEOMETRY;

OPTICAL GLASS;

EID: 33750310746     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.006511     Document Type: Article

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