Optical Surface Characterization as a Demonstration of Versatile Analytical Tools that are Easily Underestimated

Gregory W. Forbes

doi:10.1364/LAOP.2014.LFP.2

Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2014),
paper LFP.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LAOP.2014.LFP.2

Optical Surface Characterization as a Demonstration of Versatile Analytical Tools that are Easily Underestimated

Gregory W. Forbes

Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference 2014

Cancun Mexico
16–21 November 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55752-825-4

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Plenary Session 4 (LFP)

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Abstract

Precision optics possess increasingly complex desired surface shapes. Production challenges associated with lack of local spherical symmetry mean that as-built shapes are even more complex, so analytical tools for specifying and characterising them become essential.

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