Executive Brief

Executive Brief

from David Kolczynski - Director of Engineering

In previous issues of Manufacturing Confidence, we've focused on the importance of investing in innovative technologies and optimizing manufacturing processes.  At QED, we are committed to advancing optics manufacturing by building new and expanded capabilities into our polishing and metrology systems and working with our customers worldwide to develop new processes that enhance their businesses.  We also believe that sharing academic and customer success stories serves to broaden knowledge, stimulate creative thought and enable more flexible and efficient optics manufacturing.

To that end, recently, we have been delighted to participate in several very exciting events focused on asphere fabrication, the highlights of which we share with you in this issue of Manufacturing Confidence.

We were honored to host Walt Czajkowski of Edmund Optics in our booth at the recent Optatec tradeshow in Frankfurt, Germany. Walt delivered a presentation entitled “Technology Advances Glass Molded Aspheres”, which elaborates on the technical and business impact of EO’s use of QED’s new Aspheric Stitching Interferometer in conjunction with MRF to improve the quality of glass molded aspheres. We invite you to read the presentation.

QED’s Greg Forbes was an invited plenary speaker at the recent International Optical Design Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Greg’s presentation entitled “Better Ways to Specify Aspheric Shapes Can Facilitate Design, Fabrication and Testing Alike”, discusses the inadequacies of the conventional numerical representation of rotationally symmetric aspheres and offers a new and better option for their representation. We invite you to visit the QED Learning Center where you can actually download the source code for the Forbes Polynomials for your own use.

Lastly, we were fortunate to be a sponsor of the Laser focus World webcast on asphere fabrication. Once again, we invite you to visit the QED Learning Center to learn more about asphere fabrication and how MRF and SSI technologies can facilitate their manufacture.

I think that you will find this issue to be informative, enlightening and useful! I hope that you will contact me with your ideas and feedback. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

David Kolczynski