Optics fabrication equipment
Machine tools for processing lenses along the contour are distinguished by a large nomenclature, a variety of technical capabilities, price parameters, characteristics of reliability, and durability. The purpose of this article is a comparative analysis of the equipment used at domestic enterprises for the manufacture of glasses. The author did not set himself the task of conducting a price analysis, and there will be no definition of an advertising nature: one machine is better, the other is worse, etc.Of course, it is impossible to cover the entire range of precision optics fabrication equipment produced in the world for the manufacture of lenses and other optical items. According to its technical capabilities, all technological semi-automatic equipment for processing lenses along the contour can be conditionally divided into four groups. The first group includes the most simple structurally — two-three-circular machines with a relay or electronic cycle control system, performing practically only two functions: glass clamping and processing. The shaping of the lens surface occurs due to a template pre-made on special equipment.
Optics metrology
Nowadays a lot of materials are devoted to the development, manufacturing, analysis of accuracy characteristics of optoelectronic devices and systems. However, the author did not discover a single literary source, which, taking into account a modern database of these devices would allow students and developers to quickly solve technical design problems and analysis of the possibility of using modern optical-electronic devices and systems for solving specific metrological problems, including the number of high-precision measurements of physical quantities.
- Theoretical optics metrology is a branch of metrology, the subject of which is the development of the fundamental foundations of metrology (systems of unit measurements, physical constants, new measurement methods).
- Legal metrology — a section of metrology, subject which is the establishment of mandatory technical and legal requirements for the use of units of physical quantities, standards, methods, and measuring instruments aimed at ensuring the unity and the need for measurement accuracy.
- Practical metrology is a branch of metrology, the subject of which are the issues of the practical application of the theoretical metrology and the provisions of legal metrology.
Optical coating company
The simplest optical coatings are thin layers of metals such as aluminum that are applied to glass substrates to create specular surfaces. This process is known as silver plating. The metal used determines the reflection characteristics of the mirror; aluminum is the cheapest and most common coating, with a reflectance of about 88% -92% in the visible spectrum.More expensive silver, which has a reflectivity of 95% -99% even in the far-infrared, but suffers from a decrease in reflectivity (
