A Comparison of Grinding and Electric Discharge Machining to Fabricate a Stepped Mirror Structure for a Stationary Optical Delay Line

Authors

Paul Jansz, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Graham Wild, Edith Cowan University
Steven Hinckley, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Yimeng Yang
Peter Duncan

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

ACOFTAOS

Faculty

Faculty of Computing, Health and Science

School

School of Engineering / Centre for Communications Engineering Research

RAS ID

10539

Comments

Jansz, P. V., Wild, G. , Hinckley, S. , Yang, Y., & Duncan, P. (2010). A Comparison of Grinding and Electric Discharge Machining to Fabricate a Stepped Mirror Structure for a Stationary Optical Delay Line. Proceedings of AIP/ACOFT 2010. Melbourne. ACOFTAOS. Available here.

Abstract

We compare methods to fabricate stepped mirror structures for use in stationary optical delay lines for optical fibre based OCT. The fabrication methods investigated include mechanical grinding, and electric discharge machining, combined with chemical polishing.

DOI

10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929912

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Jansz, P. V. (2015). Characterising the effect of a novel optical delay line and light sources on the resolvability of time domain optical coherence tomography. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1755