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The PIAA optics were manufactured by Axsys Technologies , Imaging Systems, in Detroit, MI, USA. They were delivered mounted and aligned on a bench. Two benches (4 mirrors total) were manufactured. Click on the image on the left for CAD drawings.
The mirrors are aluminum substrate, and were diamond-turned + post-polished. The wavefront quality delivered by 2-mirror sytem was approximately 25nm RMS for each of the benches.

PIAA optics design documents / info

Text file describing the PIAA mirror shapes, including C code to generate the shapes.
Main pdf file. Includes 3D alignment sensitivity analysis.
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