East High School Summer Optics Manufacturing Immersion Concludes

… but we have a feeling that some careers are beginning!

• Nine students in East High’s Precision Optics Fabrication Program worked for 60 hours over 3 weeks making precision optical lenses.
• The students generated, loose abrasively ground, and polished microscope objectives and lenses for eyepieces and well as other components.
• Each student measured final parts on a Zygo GPI interferometer, made adjustments to the polishing stroke, and made a final measurement. The minimum specification was ½ wave. The top three final parts were 1/10^th wave, 1/7^th wave, and 1/6^th wave.
• Students honed their fabrication skills generating, grinding, and polishing blocks of other lenses.
• Students went on tours of Corning Tropel and QED.
• When the students come back in the fall, they will continue their work on the alignment of the lenses and assembly into telescope housings.