Testing High-Quality Optics
Optics are everywhere. They’re in increasingly sophisticated research and medical devices such as astronomical telescopes and micrographic lenses. They’re also in specialized telecommunications equipment. Sizes, shapes and requirements all vary, bringing new challenges to the manufacturing and testing processes.
Before very high quality optics can be tested, they must, of course, be manufactured, and this is where the issue of the quality of the glass is of concern. Traditional...
Photonics Spectra, March 2004