Abstract
The surface shape accuracy of the active stressed lap impacts the performance of grinding and polishing in the fabrication of large mirrors. We introduce a model of active stressed lap for the fabrication of a 4 m f/1.5 mirror based on finite element analysis (FEA), and the lap surface accuracy achieves in the FEA method. Using the lap surface measurement system, experimental verification is put forward, and the RMS of the measured lap surface is within 2 μm in practice. A general improvement in lap surface accuracy using the Zernike polynomial is shown. After compensating the calculation errors, the lap surface accuracy is improved by 8%–23%, and achieves , which is appropriate for practical grinding and polishing.
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