Optics Surface Inspection Workshop

Level: Introductory Length: 4 hours Format: In-Person Lecture Intended Audience: This course is designed for all optical practitioners who need to handle and evaluate optics or optical assemblies. Other suggested attendees include mechanical engineers, purchasing agents, quality assurance personnel and other persons working with or around optical components. SC700 Understanding Scratch and Dig Specifications is a pre-requisite for the course. Description: Understanding the correct way to inspect optical surfaces is one the most important skills anyone working with or around optics can have, including technicians, material handlers, engineers, managers, and buyers. While understanding the specifications is the first step, learning how to actually perform the inspection is just as important. This hands-on workshop will allow attendees to learn the "Best Practice" for cleaning and inspecting optical surfaces. The course has many demonstrations and labs and gives attendees practice handling and inspecting optics to develop a high level of proficiency. This course was designed to bring photonics personnel up to an immediate working knowledge on the correct methods to conduct a surface inspection in accordance with MIL, ANSI, and ISO standards. It is designed to complement SC700 Understanding Scratch and Dig Specifications and provide hands-on experience applying the specification and inspection parameters covered in that course. Learning Outcomes: This course will enable you to: - perform a visual review of the surface - review the tools available for microscope-based inspection to ANSI and ISO standards - conduct a visual inspection according to ISO 10110-7 and ISO 14997 standards - evaluate a surface and determine if a surface passes or fails - create a surface map - conduct a visual inspection according to ANSI OP1.002 - acquire and apply the accumulation rules - conduct a visual inspection according to MIL-PRF-13830B Instructor(s): David M. Aikens a.k.a "the scratch guy", is among the foremost experts on surface imperfection standards and inspection. Dave is President and founder of Savvy Optics Corp., and is the Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group for TC172 for Optics and Photonics standards. Event: SPIE Optifab 2023 Course Held: 16 October 2023