Super Polished Substrates or Mirrors
Super Polishing Technique:
For some demanding applications like DUV (deep ultraviolet) lasers, ultra-high power laser systems, and ring laser gyroscopes, high reflection and low scattering properties of the mirrors are one of the most necessary and critical points, where substrates with micro-roughness values are required to produce the mirrors containing the demanding qualities.
The super polishing technique is a fabrication technique often utilized to manufacture super-polished mirror substrates for optical applications. Hangzhou Shalom EO has developed an efficient and reliable super-polishing technique by modifying the classical super-polishing method, the optical substrates or mirrors produced by our technique feature roughness less than 1Å on large production scales and guarantee fast delivery for our customers. Our inspection department incorporates Atom Force Roughness Measuring System and Zygo Interference Flatness Test Instrument, where we implement strict and standard quality control. Various Super-polished Substrates and Mirrors of different materials including BK7, UV Fused Silica, ZERODUR, ZnSe, ZnS, Ge, Si, CaF2, MgF2, and Sapphire are available, in addition to the Mirrors for Ring Gyro Lasers.
Unique Classical Polishing Method:
Although the magnetorheological (MR) fluid polishing technique (where optical surfaces are polished in a computer-controlled magnetorheological finishing slurry) seems a promising approach to achieving finishes of extremely low roughness in the fabrication of optics, its high cost and inefficient production rate make it unpractical for industrial applications. Therefore, most of the super-polished optics are made from classical polishing methods. A unique modification to the classical polishing technique is developed by Shalom EO for the production of super-polished mirrors and mirror substrates. Shalom EO is capable to realize super polished mirror and mirror substrates of <1Å roughness, 0/0 scratch/dig in the central area, and superior reflection through our state-of-the-art polishing technique. The testing results obtained using Atom Force Roughness Measuring System and Zygo Interferometer are shown in the figures below:
Inspection Results:
1. Atom Force Microscope Inspection
Figure1. Roughness of Superpolished Surface Measured by Atom Force Microscope (AFM)
(Fused Silica Substrate with Diameter 200mm, Ra=0.28nm)
2. Zygo Interferometer Inspection
Flatness of Super Polished Surface Measure by Zygo Interferometer
(Fused Silica Substrate of Diameter 300mm, PV=0.101 Wave @633nm)
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