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!