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.

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