Fluid jet polishing of optical surfaces
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We present a new finishing process that is capable of locally shaping and polishing optical surfaces of complex shapes. A fluid jet system is used to guide a premixed slurry at pressures less than 6 bars to the optical surface. We used a slurry comprising water and 10% #800 SiC abrasives (21.8 μm to reduce the surface roughness of a BK7 sample from 350 to 25 nm rms and to vary the shape of a polished sample BK7, maintaining its surface roughness of 1.6 m rms, thereby proving both the shaping and polishing possibilities of the presented method. © 1998 Optical Society of America.
TNO Identifier
234799
ISSN
00036935
Source
Applied Optics, 37(28), pp. 6771-6773.
Pages
6771-6773
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