Fabrication of ultrahigh-precision hemispherical mirrors for quantum-optics applications

Daniel B. Higginbottom; Geoff T. Campbell; Gabriel Araneda; Fengzhou Fang; Yves Colombe; Ben C. Buchler; Ping Koy Lam

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-18637-8

Fabrication of ultrahigh-precision hemispherical mirrors for quantum-optics applications

Daniel B. Higginbottom^*, Geoff T. Campbell, Gabriel Araneda, Fengzhou Fang, Yves Colombe, Ben C. Buchler, Ping Koy Lam

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High precision, high numerical aperture mirrors are desirable for mediating strong atom-light coupling in quantum optics applications and can also serve as important reference surfaces for optical metrology. In this work we demonstrate the fabrication of highly-precise hemispheric mirrors with numerical aperture NA = 0.996. The mirrors were fabricated from aluminum by single-point diamond turning using a stable ultra-precision lathe calibrated with an in-situ white-light interferometer. Our mirrors have a diameter of 25 mm and were characterized using a combination of wide-angle single-shot and small-angle stitched multi-shot interferometry. The measurements show root-mean-square (RMS) form errors consistently below 25 nm. The smoothest of our mirrors has a RMS error of 14 nm and a peak-to-valley (PV) error of 88 nm, which corresponds to a form accuracy of λ/50 for visible optics.

Original language	English
Article number	221
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18637-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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