Teflon Laps: Some New Developments and Results

Achim J. Leistner

doi:10.1364/OIC.1992.JWA2

Surface Roughness and Scattering
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1992),
paper JWA2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OIC.1992.JWA2

Teflon Laps: Some New Developments and Results

Achim J. Leistner

Surface Roughness and Scattering 1992

Tucson, Arizona United States
1–3 June 1992
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Joint Session on Scattering 1 (JWA)

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Abstract

The process of superpolishing using Teflon laps has been very successful and supersmooth (<1 Å rms) and very flat (λ/100) optical surfaces have been produced on a large range of amorphous and crystalline optical materials. A brief outline of the Teflon lap technique will be given.

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