{"title":"Computer Controlled Optical Figuring at the Optical Sciences Center: An Overview","authors":"J. Hayes, J. Wyant, C. Hayslett","doi":"10.1364/oft.1981.tb5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Although computers have been used extensively for optical design and analysis, the use of computers to control optical fabrication has been limited to only a few applications. During the early 1970's computer controlled optical figuring machines were developed at Itek and Perkin- Elmer for the in-house production of large diameter mirrors. These machines have been used to produce a number of high quality mirrors and have demonstrated the feasibility of computer control in optical fabrication.","PeriodicalId":170034,"journal":{"name":"Workshop on Optical Fabrication and Testing","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Workshop on Optical Fabrication and Testing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/oft.1981.tb5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Although computers have been used extensively for optical design and analysis, the use of computers to control optical fabrication has been limited to only a few applications. During the early 1970's computer controlled optical figuring machines were developed at Itek and Perkin- Elmer for the in-house production of large diameter mirrors. These machines have been used to produce a number of high quality mirrors and have demonstrated the feasibility of computer control in optical fabrication.