Abstract
The surface shape accuracy of the active stressed lap impacts the performance of grinding and polishing in the fabrication of large mirrors. We introduce a model of active stressed lap for the fabrication of a 4 m f/1.5 mirror based on finite element analysis (FEA), and the lap surface accuracy achieves RMS<1.8 μm in the FEA method. Using the lap surface measurement system, experimental verification is put forward, and the RMS of the measured lap surface is within 2 μm in practice. A general improvement in lap surface accuracy using the Zernike polynomial is shown. After compensating the calculation errors, the lap surface accuracy is improved by 8%-23%, and achieves RMS<1.5 μm, which is appropriate for practical grinding and polishing.
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