Meeting Topics to Be Considered

1.   Optical Materials

• New materials for new applications (plastics, crystals, glasses, lightweight materials, ceramics, carbides, UV optics materials)
• Material response to fabrication processes
• Metamaterials

2.   Figuring and Finishing Science

• Grinding, precision grinding, diamond turning and milling, ultrasound assisted machining, vibration assisted polishing
• New ideas in traditional (pitch) polishing, MRF, ion beam figuring and polishing, jet polishing, novel finishing processes
• Glass and plastic molding
• Abrasives, novel abrasive formulations
• Thin films

3.   Optical Testing

• Testing for sub-surface damage, homogeneity, form, finish, scratch/dig
• New ideas in interferometry
• Testing aspheric surfaces with and without null-optics
• Computer-generated holograms and spatial light modulators for testing
• Absolute tests for flats, spheres and aspheres
• New concepts in profilometry: optical and mechanical probes
• Testing of very large and very small optics
• White light interferometry, fringe projection metrology, deflectometry
• Testing in adverse environments: vibration, turbulence, vacuum, space, etc.
• In-process metrology

4.   Assembly, Alignment, Contamination Control, Cleaning, Packaging

• Adhesives and cementing
• Alignment of optical systems
• Alignment of systems containing aspheric elements
• Alignment of multi-element mirrors
• Mounting, control of deformation and stress birefringence
• Cleaning optics
• Clean rooms and contamination control
• Handling and packing of precision optics

5.   Process Engineering

• Cost effective optics manufacturing processes
• Cost effective fabrication of aspheric surfaces
• Automation in optics fabrication
• Fabrication of large optics
• Fabrication of micro-optics
• Experiences from the shop floor

6.   Fabrication of Unusual Optical Systems

• Photolithography optics
• Telescopes
• Adaptive optics
• Integrated optics

7.   Education and Training in Optics Metrology and Finishing Science