Machinery

Precitech Optimum 5000 - 5 axis diamond turning and grinding machining center

Feedback resolution	8 nanometers
Machining Ability	Single Point Diamond Turning, Diamond Grinding
Materials	Ceramics, Glass, Steels, Carbides, Non-ferrous materials
Shapes	Freeforms, Non-rotationally symmetric surfaces, rotationally symmetric surface, Aspheric surfaces, Acylindrical surfaces, Array patterns
Form Accuracy Capability	¼ λ to ½ λ
Surface Finishes	10 – 40 Å RMS

Precitech NanoForm 200 - 2 axis diamond turning and machining center

Feedback resolution	1.4 nanometers
Machining Ability	Single Point Diamond Turning, Diamond Grinding
Materials	Ceramics, Glass, Steels, Carbides, Non-ferrous materials
Shapes	Rotationally symmetric surfaces, Aspheric surfaces, Spherical surfaces
Form Accuracy Capability	1/10 λ to ½ λ
Surface Finishes	10 – 40 Å RMS

Precitech NanoForm 200 - 2 axis diamond turning machine

Feedback resolution	1.4 nanometers
Machining Ability	Single Point Diamond Turning
Materials	Non-ferrous materials
Shapes	Rotationally symmetric surface, Aspheric surfaces, Spherical Surfaces
Form Accuracy Capability	1/10 λ to 1/4λ
Surface Finishes	10– 40 Å RMS

Polishing Capabilities:

Kodak Proprietary CNC Aspheric polisher

Highly trained polishers with 20+ years experience in hand polishing optical surfaces in glass, ceramics, steels and carbides

Surface Accuracies	1/10 λ
Surface Roughness	5-20 Å RMS

Metrology

Taylor-Hobson Form Talysurf PGI Series 2

Resolution	12.8nm
Diameter	Capable of measuring surfaces up to 120mm diameter
Surface Features	Capable of measuring Curvature, Inclination, Roughness, Waviness

Taylor-Hobson Form Talysurf 840 PGI

Resolution	.8nm
Diameter	Capable of measuring surfaces up to 120mm diameter
Surface Features	Capable of measuring Curvature, Inclination, Roughness, Waviness

Zygo GPI-XPS Interferometer with ZMI 510 Displacement Measuring Interferometer (DMI) Radius Scale

System Accuracy	1/20 to 1/10 λ
DMI Resolution	9.89 nm

Skilled Workforce:

RPO's Precision Machining Group is comprised of workmen that have 10 to 25 years of experience in diamond grinding and polishing of all types of optical surfaces, including spherical, aspherical, acylindrical and freeform optics to form errors of less than 1/10th λ accuracies. Our diamond turning facility is staffed with toolmakers having 15+ years of experience in diamond turning and optical tool surface generation.