May 2012: AOS has taken delivery of a new Zeeko IRP800 Robotic Polishing Machine. This new state of the art technology gives us the capacity to make aspheric mirrors up to 1-meter in size. Commisioned to service this summer, we are now using this machine for making Silicon Carbide, Silicon and Glass off-axis parabolas and other aspheric optics. Follow the links below for more information:
Computer Controlled Polishing:
Aspheric Finishing of Glass and SiC Optics:
