Fig. 1 Integrated framework of manufacturing and testing technologies for large-aperture optical mirrors. (IMAGE)

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Fig. 1 Integrated framework of manufacturing and testing technologies for large-aperture optical mirrors.

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Fig. 1 Integrated framework of manufacturing and testing technologies for large-aperture optical mirrors. a. Review frame. b. Schematic overview of the integrated engineering chain for large-aperture optical mirror fabrication. c. A panoramic view of testing technologies across the large-aperture mirror manufacturing workflow. a, Overall framework of large-aperture optical mirror manufacturing and testing, highlighting the iterative closed loop between fabrication, metrology, correction and acceptance for monolithic and segmented mirrors. b, Integrated manufacturing chain from surface forming and precision grinding to polishing and deterministic figuring. c, Cross-scale testing covering rough generation, polishing and figuring, and segmented-mirror integration.

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Xuejun Zhang et al.

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