Optical fibre polishing with a motor-driven polishing wheel

Polishing of Fibre Optic Connectors

This study reports the development of high efficiency polishing protocols of fibre connectors, by replacing the presents three step polishing with two step polishing protocols, and by using various abrasives as polishing mediums, to achieve necessary geometrical and optical qualities for physical contact transmission using a commercially available connector polisher. The study focuses on surfac...

Fluid jet polishing of optical surfaces.

We present a new finishing process that is capable of locally shaping and polishing optical surfaces of complex shapes. A fluid jet system is used to guide a premixed slurry at pressures less than 6 bars to the optical surface. We used a slurry comprising water and 10% #800 SiC abrasives (21.8 mum) to reduce the surface roughness of a BK7 sample from 350 to 25 nm rms and to vary the shape of a ...

Laser application for optical glass polishing

Fidel Vega Núria Lupón Jesús Armengol Cebrian Ferran Laguarta Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Departament d’ Òptica I Optometria C/Violinista Vellsolà 37 08222 Terrassa, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Rapid generation of large area polished optical surfaces by high-power CO2 laser irradiation is shown. Results focus on glasses with high expansion coefficients (a>1025/°C) conventio...

Ultra-precision Float Polishing of Optical Materials

Correlation-based smoothing model for optical polishing.

A generalized model is developed to quantitatively describe the smoothing effects from different polishing tools used for optical surfaces. The smoothing effect naturally corrects mid-to-high spatial frequency errors that have features small compared to the size of the polishing lap. The original parametric smoothing model provided a convenient way to compare smoothing efficiency of different p...