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Ghigo, Mauro
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- 2018A novel approach for the realization of thin glass substrates for optical mirrorscitations
- 2015Cold shaping of thin glass foils: a fast and cost-effective solution for making light-weight astronomical x-ray opticscitations
- 2014Evaluation of the surface strength of glass plates shaped by hot slumping processcitations
- 2013Accurate integration of segmented x-ray optics using interfacing ribscitations
- 2009Design And Development The Ixo Mirrors By Innovative Slumping Glass Technologies
- 2009Stiff and Lightweight Optical Mirrors Made by Glass Slumping with Foamed Core
- 2009Lightweight Mirror Developments
- 2005Recent results on manufacturing of segmented x-ray mirrors with slumped glasscitations
- 2003Use of the LIGA process for the production of pyramid wavefront sensors for adaptive optics in astronomycitations
- 2003Replication by Ni electroforming approach to produce the Con-X/HXT hard x-ray mirrorscitations
- 2003Alternative mirror technologies
- 2002Development of soft and hard x-ray optics for astronomy: progress report II and considerations on material properties for large-diameter segmented optics of future missionscitations
- 2000Integral shell mirrors for the Constellation X-ray mission hard x-ray telescopecitations
- 2000Nickel-replicated multilayer optics for soft and hard x-ray telescopescitations
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Stiff and Lightweight Optical Mirrors Made by Glass Slumping with Foamed Core
Abstract
At the Brera Astronomical Observatory (Milan-Italy) an innovative technique is under development aiming at permitting the manufacturing of high quality astronomical mirrors, with a drastic reduction of the mirror weight, cost, and production time. The method foresees two main steps: a) a thin mirror shell is produced using a hot slumping technique. A flat glass sheet having a thickness of few mm is placed onto a convex ceramic mould having a high optical quality. During a suitable thermal cycle the glass sheet will slump onto the mould and the glass will copy with high accuracy the shape of the mould. This step produces a thin and floppy concave glass shell having a good intrinsic optical shape. b) the curved shell (maintained in its intrinsic shape) is assembled and glued to a stiff substrate made in a foamed and pre-shaped material. To obtain a sandwich structure, on the back of the substrate it is also glued a flat sheet of the same glass. Due to this replica approach, the system could be in principle used for the mass production of identical mirrors for a number of applications, as e.g. faced large primary mirrors. This paper describes the process of production of a prototype optical segment and the status of the investigation....