Designing a hydraulic support system for large monolithic mirror's precise in-situ testing-polishing iteration

doi:10.1364/oe.27.003746

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	Designing a hydraulic support system for large monolithic mirror's precise in-situ testing-polishing iteration
	H.F.Hu; X.Luo; Z.Y.Liu; X.J.Zhang; D.L.Xue; H.W.Zhao
刊名	Optics Express
	2019
卷号	27 期号:3 页码:3746-3760
关键词	Optics
ISSN号	1094-4087
DOI	10.1364/oe.27.003746
英文摘要	In order to improve the fabrication efficiency and testing accuracy of meter-scale, large monolithic mirrors, hydraulic support units (HSUs) are commonly used. However, the challenges to reduce the disparity of the HSUs' stiffness and keep the stability of the mirrors' altitude are hard to resolve, especially for large-scale mirrors. In this paper, we found the air ratio of the working fluid for HSUs is a key factor for designing the HSUs to resolve the challenges from the analytical solution that we derived for supporting large mirrors. Here we designed, tested and fabricated dozens of HSUs and used a four-meter SiC mirror, the world's largest monolithic SiC reported in public, as a study case. It shows that the stiffness values of grouped HSUs vary within +/- 3%, and the mirror's reference surface PV is less than 20 mu m in 10 days, producing a mirror tip/tilt angle less than 1.5". The surface error of the supported mirror is about 20 nm, which is very close to the ideal case where uniform stiffness exists, for randomly distributed stiffness values. The repeatability of the in-situ interferometric test with 0.019 lambda RMS of the mirror surface demonstrates the supporting system in a high precision. With such a supporting system, the fabrication process of this mirror was estimated to be sped up by 47% compared to the typical fabricating iteration. With minor modifications and easy extensions, such a novel supporting system could be used widely for many in-situ, high-quality fabricating-testing processes. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ciomp.ac.cn/handle/181722/63499]
专题	长春光学精密机械与物理研究所_中科院长春光机所知识产出
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	H.F.Hu,X.Luo,Z.Y.Liu,et al. Designing a hydraulic support system for large monolithic mirror's precise in-situ testing-polishing iteration[J]. Optics Express,2019,27(3):3746-3760.
APA	H.F.Hu,X.Luo,Z.Y.Liu,X.J.Zhang,D.L.Xue,&H.W.Zhao.(2019).Designing a hydraulic support system for large monolithic mirror's precise in-situ testing-polishing iteration.Optics Express,27(3),3746-3760.
MLA	H.F.Hu,et al."Designing a hydraulic support system for large monolithic mirror's precise in-situ testing-polishing iteration".Optics Express 27.3(2019):3746-3760.