33rd Annual Meeting
Sunday – Friday, November 4 – November 9, 2018
Red Rock Casino • Resort • Spa
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Conference Chair:
Kate M. Medicus, Ruda Cardinal, Inc.
Joseph D. Owen (University of North Carolina – Charlotte)
Date and Time: TBA
Diamond turning is an essential manufacturing process used in direct machining of optical surfaces in many areas of photonics. A few examples include: infrared optics (both commercial and defense), plastic injection mold inserts, and mirrors (spectrometers, telescopes, satellite, etc.).
This tutorial will cover the following topics:
- History of machine tools on the way to ultra-precision
- Enabling machine tool technologies
- Machine configurations
- 2-axis turning, slow and fast tool servo, flycutting and milling
- Machine errors
- Machine tool companies
- Diamond tool basics
- Single crystal and polycrystalline
- Geometry
- Suppliers
- Diamond Turning materials
- Metals (D-shell electron phenomena)
- Brittle materials: Crystals, IR glasses, ceramics
- Machining parameters
- Feed rates, depth of cuts, spindle speeds
- Typical roughing and finishing
- Surface finish
- Cutting fluids
- Basics of optical prescriptions
- Tool path generation software
- Metrology
- Form and finish
- Advanced diamond machining o High speed machining o Ultra-sonic
- Laser assisted