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Guiseppe Valsecchi

Robert David Banham

Iain A Neil

Masahiro Teshima

Razmik Mirzoyan

John Earl Hill

Oberto Citterio

Iain Alexander Neil

A mirror includes a carrier, a reflecting layer disposed above a main face of the carrier, and a transparent layer disposed above the reflective layer. The carrier includes a base body, and the base body includes one or more of a material comprising a density in a range from 0.1 to 1.0 g/cm, a porous material, a foamed material, a material comprising a structure containing closed cells, a material comprising a honeycomb structure, or a structure containing carbon fibers.

Mirror with increased form stability and longevity and a method of fabricating the same

A process for fabricating a reflective optical system is disclosed that includes providing first and second mandrels that form a mandrel assembly, and positioning the mandrel assembly in an electroforming bath. The process also includes performing an electroforming operation for a predetermined period, thereby forming an optical system on the mandrel assembly. The process further involves separating the mandrel assembly from the optical system. The resulting optical system is reflective and has at least first and second elongate hollow sections each having an axis corresponding to the axis of elongation of a respective mandrel. The reflective optical system may be used as an afocal relay and used in lithography applications.

Reflective optical systems and their fabrication

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Oggiono, Italy

Guiseppe Valsecchi