Light: Science & Applications (Oct 2022)

Challenges and strategies in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror

  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Haixiang Hu,
  • Xiaokun Wang,
  • Xiao Luo,
  • Ge Zhang,
  • Wenxing Zhao,
  • Xiaoyi Wang,
  • Zhenyu Liu,
  • Ling Xiong,
  • Erhui Qi,
  • Congcong Cui,
  • Yanchao Wang,
  • Yingjie Li,
  • Xu Wang,
  • Longxiang Li,
  • Yang Bai,
  • Qiang Cheng,
  • Zhiyu Zhang,
  • Ruigang Li,
  • Wa Tang,
  • Xuefeng Zeng,
  • Weijie Deng,
  • Feng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-00994-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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CIOMP report their progress in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror. The final surface figure error is 15.2 nm RMS and aerial density is less than 120 kg/m2.