Diamond-Turning CONSULTING
Diamond turning or Flycutting should be the first part of a “Super-Finishing” process! DTP, then MRF! Magneto Rheological Finishing may be necessary for the most demanding customers! MRF can remove the last bit (few microns) of sub-surface micro-cracking or can be useful in improving small areas of thickness variations on larger flat surfaces. High-Tech spot-polishing!
And LAM (laser assisted machining) may be necessary for hard materials, but it is still Diamond Turning!
Ultra-Precision accuracy and “Optical” surface quality! Diamond-Turning or Diamond-FlyCutting produce amazing figure accuracy and surface quality (without post-polishing) on aspheric, spherical and plano (flat) surfaces for either transmissive or reflective applications. Only these
manufacturing processes provide ultra-precision dimensional tolerancing and angstrom-level surface quality. Applications are typically within the Visible or the Infrared spectral ranges.
Commonly Diamond-Turned and Diamond-Flycut Materials
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Nickel-Plated Substrates
- Engineering Crystals
- Plastics
Surfaces and Shapes, Applications galore!!
- Injection Molds
- Faceted Optics
- Beam Integrators
- Etalons
- Polygonal Mirrors
- Cassegrain Telescope Optics
- Inter-Cavity Optics
- Steering Mirrors
- Off-Axis Paraboloids
- Hyperboloids and Ellipsoids
- Toroid’s
- Cylinder Sections
- Spherical Optics
- Axicons and Waxicons
- Copier Drums
- Aircraft Cabin Windows
- Grooved Optics
- Mirrors
- Fresnel Surfaces
- Intraocular Lenses
- Diffractive optics
Engineering Crystals that I have Diamond-Machined
- Zinc Selenide
- Zinc Sulfide and Cleartran
- Zinc Sulfide Selenide
- Silicon
- Indium and Gallium Antimonide
- Mercury Cadmium Telluride
- Cadmium Zinc Telluride
- Germanium
- Gallium Arsenide
- Magnesium Fluoride
- Calcium Fluoride
- Sodium Chloride
and many other exotic variants!