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  1. REO diamond -turned aspheres available in all aspheric profiles

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    Fri, 20 Apr 2012

    A range of diamond - turned aspheres fabricated from either aluminum ..... PRESS RELEASE REO Supplies Diamond Turned Aspheres in High Volume REO, a leading ..... solutions, now offers a range of diamond turned , aspheric mirrors, including off

  2. New way to produce diamond -turned mirrors situates them early on

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    Mon, 14 Jun 2010

    at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF) have worked out a way to produce diamond - turned telescope mirrors to what they say is a better surface figure and mirror-to-mirror positional accuracy. Mirrors

  1. HIGH-VOLUME OPTICS FABRICATION: New technologies enable precise and cost-effective wafer-level optics

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    Thu, 1 Jan 2009

    A combination of ultraprecision diamond - turned hard tools and microlithography, as well as advances in metrology, pave the way for high-volume production of wafer-level

  2. MWIR fiber collimator from LightPath Technologies uses molded IR aspheres

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    Mon, 4 Jul 2011

    manufactured from LightPath’s Black Diamond ™ chalcogenide glass and are a less expensive substitute for high-volume, diamond - turned Germanium and Zinc Selenide optics. “LightPath Technologies is continuing to expand its product line for Infrared

  3. Low-Scatter Optical Surfaces - Chemical-mechanical polishing shines mirrors

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    Sun, 1 Jun 2008

    aluminum mirrors, resulting in a diamond - turned mirror surface that has a directional ..... prepolished part (typically, diamond - turned or mechanically lapped) without degrading ..... 260 × 350 µm. Although the diamond - turned mirror (SPDT) had an average

  4. G-S Plastic Optics

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    Mon, 7 Feb 2011

    scanning, detection, and illumination applications worldwide. The company has in-house capability to provide diamond turned and injection molding, thin-film and reflective coatings, and integrated optical solutions to meet a range of

  5. ASPHERES: Fabrication choices impact IR asphere design

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    Sun, 1 May 2011

    and optical axes. Therefore, for systems requiring precise centering or “snap-together” construction, a diamond - turned surface is hard to beat. Material selection is a major issue for diamond turning. In general, ferrous materials

  6. LWIR lens assembly from LightPath for uncooled infrared sensors

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    Mon, 13 Sep 2010

    LightPath's Black Diamond™ molded chalcogenide infrared lenses that are a lower cost substitute for high volume diamond - turned Germanium and Zinc Selenide optics. The opto-mechanical design combined with the unique material properties of

  7. MID-IR OPTICS: Common-aperture IR imaging systems handle multispectral demands

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    Fri, 1 Oct 2010

    as a pre-polish step and eliminate mid-spatial frequency errors as a finishing step. Relative to traditional diamond - turned IR optics, these processes produce surfaces with lower surface roughness and minimal light scatter, yielding a

  8. ASPHERES: Fabrication choices impact IR asphere design

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    Sun, 1 May 2011

    and optical axes. Therefore, for systems requiring precise centering or “snap-together” construction, a diamond - turned surface is hard to beat. Material selection is a major issue for diamond turning. In general, ferrous materials