Kaleido has upgraded its capabilities enabling it to produce on-axis, off-axis and free form mirrors (up to 700mm diameter) with a surface roughness <3nm RMS and a slope accuracy of better than 70urad
Kaleido Technology has upgraded its proprietary diamond machining capabilities enabling it to produce on-axis, off-axis and free form mirrors (up to 700mm diameter) with a surface roughness of less than 3nm RMS and a slope accuracy of better than 70urad.
In addition to large and complex ultra-smooth mirrors the geometrical freedom inherent in Kaleido's unique machining set-up enables it to produce off-axis parts with very long working distances that cannot be done by on-axis turning.
Commenting upon the advance, Palle Gelzer Dinesen (chief sales officer and co-founder) said: " We are seeing an immediate advantage from the two-fold improvement in achievable surface roughness for our automotive, aerospace and military customers.
" We have also seen early interest from researchers involved with X-ray and short wavelength applications where the ultra-smooth surfaces could give significant advantage".
"We are very pleased with our machining system performance after the upgrade.
"It pushes the capabilities of our cutting-edge diamond-machining capabilities even further enabling us to pursue new applications with extreme requirements", said senior technical expert and co-founder Christian Holme of Kaleido Technology.
"Along with our proprietary environment feed-back system for extended accuracy and our proprietary machine control system including direct processing of Cad-files, this accuracy upgrade really gives a technological edge in the ultra-precision optics area".
Using its ultra-precision machining centre, Kaleido Technology is able to take a Cad file directly from a customer to produce prototype and production quantity mirrors to the highest degree of accuracy and surface finish.
Through innovative production methods the company seeks to provide high precision optics and optical systems at competitive prices.
