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Title
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Design for Metrology of Freeform Optics
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Author
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Venditti, Kristen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
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Description
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Freeform optics offer significant advantages over the conventional aspheric optics, but pose new challenges in metrology and manufacturing. The spatial frequencies of an optical surface that must be measured have changed due to the progression of ...
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Title
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FIBER BASED TOOLS FOR POLISHING OPTICAL MATERIALS
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Author
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Shahinian, Hossein
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics
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Description
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In this dissertation, the development of alternative fiber based polishing tools for the finishing of precision freeform and aspherical optics is introduced. Freeform and aspherical optics, i.e. optics with varying radius of curvatures (ROC), are ...
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Title
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Freeform Optical Surface Form Metrology with Serial Data Acquisition
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Author
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Noste, Todd
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics, Physics
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Description
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Freeform optics, or optics with no axis of rotational invariance, provide optical designers more degrees of freedom, flexibility, and opportunity for innovation increasing optical performance and system integration while decreasing the form factor...
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Title
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Integration of advanced manufacturing in the mechanical design of reflective optics
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Author
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Horvath, Nicholas
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics
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Description
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High-performance freeform optical systems, designed for broad spectral imaging fromthe visible to the far infrared, place new demands on optical design, precision manufacturing,and precision metrology. In this dissertation, four key aspects are ad...
