Product novelty 25. April 2024

MKS Instruments, Inc.will present Newport Replicated Freeform Mirrors, non-rotationally symmetric reflective mirrors for use in advanced optical systems as a premiere in Europe at Optatec in Frankfurt. Newport Replicated Freeform Mirrors remove the optical design constraint of rotational symmetry, enabling optical designers to further increase the efficiency and precision of many types of optical systems, offering improved aberration correction, higher image quality, increased optical throughput, and the promise of reduced footprint. The new Newport Replicated Freeform Mirrors can be used in many different applications, such as analytical instruments, imaging systems, laser tracking and communications. MKS is recognized as a leader for its unique manufacturing and replication processes for custom high precision replicated mirrors.

Newport Replicated Freeform Mirrors utilize optical replication technology, which centers around the use of a precision master to create nearly identical copies. High quality optical replication is an ideal manufacturing process for freeform mirrors as all the engineering and metrology are focused on the master. Once a high-quality master has been designed, fabricated, and qualified, the optical replication manufacturing process creates nearly exact copies of the highly engineered freeform master. Newport Replicated Freeform Mirrors have a spectral range of 200 nm to 15 µm and the reflective surfaces can be bare aluminum, bare gold, or protected aluminum, enabling a wide application space. The mirrors are enhanced by advanced proprietary metrology tools and techniques to validate the freeform mirror surface figure and ensure part to part accuracy.