Solid-state lasers are broadly used in various applications. The most common gain medium is neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG). Very important parameters are angle between polished face surfaces and result wave-front deformation. These parameters are usually measured with two different methods. The paper presents a procedure for measurements of the parameters in a single measurement sequence using Fourier transform phase-shifting interferometry. The results are figures of both optical surfaces, and their mutual position, wave-front deformation, and homogeneity of refractive index. Based on the knowledge of these parameters can be done precise correction of resulted wave-front and of the wedge by polishing of face surfaces. The presented method reduces manipulation with the elements is non-sensitive to the operator and allows more precise wavefront correction thanks to the knowledge of inhomogeneity of material.
There are still types of lenses that should to be glued on holder for polishing in the latter-day optical production. A negative effect during this process is a deformation of the optical surface caused by a different thermal expansion of the holder, glass and blocking pitch. This paper presents a numerical simulation of deformation of hemispheric lens which was verified by a series of experiments. A new segmented lens holder, which significantly suppresses mutual tension and therefore an amplitude of a surface deformation was designed based on the results. The lens holder reduces the surface deformation by approximately 30 times compared to standard holders. The most beneficial part of this work is a development of the precise simulation method that allows designing and optimizing the lens holder for an application before its realization.
Today, aspherical elements have become an indispensable part of modern high-precision optical assemblies. Several kinds of defects arise during their manufacture. As far as very precise aspherical surfaces are concerned, mid-spatial frequencies are probably the most important issue. This type of imperfection fills the gap between shape (low-spatial frequencies) and microroughness (high-spatial frequencies).
A smaller part of these defects arise during polishing; however, more of them are generated during the grinding process. Due to the interference of different controlling frequencies in the machine and imperfections in the constructional solution of the grinding machine, defects occur on the optical surface, which deform it. The periods of these defects usually lie in an interval of 0.5 to 10 mm, depending on the parameters of the machining process. To prevent the generation of these structures, a comprehensive measurement of the sources and transmission of vibrations was realised using the measuring device VibXpert II. The measurement was made on the grinding machine Optotech MCG 100 CNC. Several simulations of different types of processes were realised and the measurement was also subsequently performed during a real grinding process of aspherical optical surfaces. The data acquired from the measurement of vibrations were mathematically processed in frequency space. The experiment revealed several reasons for these defects.
We focus on the subaperture polishing tool concept development for suppressing midspatial frequencies (MSF) arising from computer numerical control machining of aspherical optical surfaces. The selective effect in the MSF range is achieved by setting the tool viscoelastic properties so that rigidity increases in the frequency-domain generated by the rotational tool movement over the aspheric surface with the MSF while the tool remains flexible in the lower frequency range associated with tool radial direction movement. The mechanism of MSF removal is discussed in detail, including in terms of elasticity module frequency dependences, and is also experimentally verified. In order to monitor and optimize viscoelastic properties, especially in regard to frequency dependences, the dynamic mechanical analysis method has been developed and applied and is presented in the paper as well.
Recently, a digital holographic method called Frequency Sweeping Digital Holography (FSDH) for high precision
measurements of surface topography of mechanical parts has been introduced. The greatest advantage of the presented
FSDH is the fact that the measurement is absolute. i.e. optical path difference is independently retrieved in every single
pixel. This approach can therefore be used also for measurement of large displacements and deformation. FSDH is
particularly suitable in cases where the common digital holographic methods fail due to e.g. 2π unambiguity problem or
speckle decorrelation. Measurement method principles, setup details, an some features of the method are discussed.
Fourier-transform phase-shifting interferometry brings the possibility of a very precise measurement of refractive-index variation in a material. In a four surface cavity six first order interferograms are observed. In the standard way an interference between waves reflected from a front and a rear surface of a sample is used to obtain refractive-index homogeneity. But another three interferograms contain information about inner inhomogeneity and can be used for its calculation as well. In this paper all four calculation methods are presented and compared. The measurements and simulations show, the methods give us globally similar outputs. However due to calculation from different interferograms every result is affected by different undesirable effects. This difference can be used for suppression of the effects and thus to refine the results.
High demands on the final surfaces micro-roughness as well as great shape accuracy have to be achieved under the manufacturing process of the precise mirrors for Metis orbital coronagraph. It is challenging engineering task with respect to lightweight design of the mirrors and resulting objectionable optical surface shape stability. Manufacturing of such optical elements is usually affected by number of various effects. Most of them are caused by instability of temperature field. It is necessary to explore, comprehend and consequently minimize all thermo - mechanical processes which take place during mirror cementing, grinding and polishing processes to minimize the optical surface deformation. Application of FEM simulation was proved as a useful tool to help to solve this task. FEM simulations were used to develop and virtually compare different mirror holders to minimize the residual stress generated by temperature changes and to suppress the shape deformation of the optical surface below the critical limit of about 100 nm.
The aim of this work is an exploration of the options for optical surface polishing using the Zeeko IRP 100 machine and raster kinematics suitable for free-form polishing. For this purpose, aspheric surfaces were polished in raster prepolishing mode and then in Precession raster 3D shape correction, which is based on the Dwell time tool movement control. It was found that shape accuracy can achieve the value of approximately 35 nm RMS. The main inaccuracy was caused by the mid-spatial frequencies generated by the kinematics of the applied tools, which also limited the achievable values of microroughness.
KEYWORDS: Data corrections, Spherical lenses, Data processing, Control systems, Manufacturing, MATLAB, Digital filtering, Differential equations, Convolution, Optics manufacturing
The work deals with the creation of correction data when generating spherical and aspherical surfaces. Generation is performed on the converted 5-axis milling machine, for which it is necessary to generate control programs. In the process of generating surfaces may be formed random errors. Hence the need to measure workpieces, and errors corrected. There is thus solved a measurement of generated surface on coordinate measuring machine Mitutoyo LEGEX 744 and draft methods of data processing by using polynomial of nth order. The measured data are processed by Matlab, specifically CFTool module. This method is further tested and subsequently the experiment evaluated.
This paper reports on phase retrieval method in non-nulling dual-wavelength interferometry. It uses synthetic phase as shape estimation for determination of fringe orders within every pixel. The fringe order map is subsequently used for unwrapping of phase measured at shorter wavelengths. It was experimentally shown that even for inaccurate synthetic phase, the computed phase for short wavelength is correct. The key point is in analysis of phase fields in spatial derivatives where the sensitivity to phase distortions is lower instead of analyzing the phase fields themselves.
The aim of this study was to determine the optimal subaperture polishing procedure for aspherical surfaces on the Optotech MCP 250 CNC machine. Due to the fact that the CNC subaperture polishing process runs along well defined paths, certain frequencies develop on the polished surface, which can be limiting for the resulting microroughness. A proper sequence of polishing steps in different tool motion control modes can minimize these frequencies and help to substantially reduce microroughness. In this context, various tool motion control modes ("Spiral spindle mode", "Spiral axis mode" and "Raster mode") in combination with different tools were tested. The resulting microroughness values were observed in the defined mid-frequency and high-frequency areas. The best results, i.e. the lowest microroughness values were obtained using a combination of the processes "Ball spiral axis mode", "FEM raster mode", "spiral spindle 2D FEM correction mode" and "AFJ spiral axis mode"
The developed method is used for subsurface damage evaluation. It is based on CNC subaperture asymmetric polishing of the surface, which leads to the formation of a wedge with decreasing depth, depending on the diameter and a subsequent analysis of the surface using White - Light Interferometry. In the evaluation, 'negative PV value' method was used enabling the detection of the depth of damage with the accuracy of 1 micron.
We have realized an optical design of air space doublet of 100 mm clear aperture and 520 mm focal length that is optimized with respect to a quality of wavefront error better than 0.07 λ RMS for on-axis imaging at wavelengths of 633 nm and 450 nm. To minimize optical aberrations we have designed one of the four surfaces to be an aspherical. Based on a tolerance analyses those take into account planned spherical and aspherical technologies for surfaces realization and measurement equipment we have realized the doublet. In the paper there is described a technique of the optical design, tolerance analysis, technique of objective realization and results of the optical elements realization.
This paper describes a quest to find simple technique to superpolish Zerodur asphere (55μm departure from best fit sphere) that could be employed on old fashion way 1-excenter optical polishing machine. The work focuses on selection of polishing technology, study of different polishing slurries and optimization of polishing setup. It is demonstrated that either by use of fine colloidal CeO2 slurry or by use of bowl-feed polishing setup with CeO2 charged pitch we could reach 0.4nm RMS roughness while removing <30nm of surface layer. This technique, although not optimized, was successfully used to improve surface roughness on already prepolished Zerodur aspheres without necessity to involve sophisticated super-polishing technology and highly trained manpower.
In recent times, resin bond grinding wheels have often been used for the precise grinding of aspheric surfaces. In this paper, the influence of changes in the circumferential speed of the resin bond grinding wheel on the microroughness of the produced surface and also on the volume of the structures and the scratches is presented. The article also discusses how the cutting wear of the tool affects the surface quality and shows the correlation between the circumferential speed and the rate of degradation of the resin bond grinding wheel. A circumferential speed interval from 12 m/s to 24 m/s was investigated and the effect of tool degradation was observed at 1.9-hour intervals. The results of the experiment show that the optimal circumferential speed of the tool lies around 20 m/s. At this speed, the tool produces a perfectly polishable surface and tool degradation is minimized.
The aim of this work was an investigation of surface microroughness and shape accuracy achieved on an aspheric lens by subaperture computer numeric control (CNC) polishing. Different optical substrates were polished (OHARA S-LAH 58, SF4, ZERODUR) using a POLITEX™ polishing pad, synthetic pitch, and the natural optical pitch. Surface roughness was measured by light interferometer. The best results were achieved on the S-LAH58 glass and the ZERODUR™ using the natural optical pitch. In the case of SF4 glass, the natural optical pitch showed a tendency to scratch the surface. Experiments also indicated a problem in surface form deterioration when using the natural optical pitch, regardless of the type of optical material.
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