Manufacture of a 10-km-scale radius-of-curvature surface by use of a thin-film coating technique.
We tried a method of making a 10-km-class large-radius-of-curvature surface that would satisfy both low microroughness (0.1 nm rms) and low waviness (lambda/100) by forming a spherically curved film with a low-loss coating technique on a flat surface produced by mechanical (chemical) polishing. We obtained a SiO2 surface with a 10255 +/- 250-m radius of spherical curvature that had less than lambda/30 waviness and 0.4-nm micro-roughness over a 9-cm-diameter area.
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan. miyoki@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Miyoki
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Ohashi
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Waseda
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Karoji
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Tomaru