Abstract
No physical model of stressed mirror polishing, based on the small deflection and deformation of elastic thin plates, has been applied in processing lightweight mirrors. We propose an equivalent thin-plate method for the stressed loading of lightweight mirrors for the first time. Stressed loading and polishing of an aspheric lightweight mirror are simulated using the small-deflection deformation theory of an elastic thin plate. We simulate off-axis aspheric silicon carbide (SiC) lightweight mirrors with three different structures, determining the corresponding equivalent thickness plate in a lightweight structure with a nearly uniform surface density distribution and isotropic bending properties. We then establish a residual removal model of a stressed polishing surface, design the stressed loading equipment, and propose an iterative method for stressed polishing of an off-axis aspheric SiC lightweight mirror. The results demonstrate that it is feasible to choose a lightweight structure that performs full-aperture stressed polishing on off-axis aspheric lightweight mirrors consisting of SiC or other materials.
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