Manufacturing and Assembly
Aspheric and High Complexity Components
LightWorks Optics entered the complex aspheric components manufacturing market several years ago as a production enabler for some of the world’s most sophisticated telescope assemblies.
To augment these services, we also recently began offering a computer-controlled deterministic polishing process to fabricate high precision aspheric components.
We then compounded those capabilities with the advanced technologies needed to produce very steep aspheric components in a wide variety of materials.
With our combined polishing techniques and high precision metrology, we have produced superb results for virtually every application.
LightWorks Optics' cutting-edge aspheric manufacturing capabilities include:
- Glass and metal components
- No parent required manufacturing – polish directly from generated blanks
- Thousands of waves of speherical departure
- On and off-axis designs
- Excellent surface figure
- Blank sizes that accommodate </= 400 mm
- Multiple Zeeko machines for high throughput
- Raster polishing that eliminates mid-frequency surface ripple
- Surface profilometers (surface figure measurements)
- Form TalySurf (surface figure measurements)
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Background
Design Engineering