• Pat Bechtold

    Marketing Technologist, OptiPro Systems

    Pat Bechtold is Marketing Technologist at OptiPro Systems (Ontario, NY).

    FIGURE 1. A freeform surface id defined in PROSurf by importing a CAD model.
    Pat Bechtold
    July 21, 2021
    The process of manufacturing a freeform optic relies on the interplay between sophisticated fabrication and metrology tools, both hardware and software.
    FIGURE 1. With five axes of computer-controlled motion, UltraForm Finishing (UFF) is capable of polishing aspheric and freeform surfaces.
    Pat Bechtold
    May 1, 2018
    From soft optical glasses to hard technical ceramics, flexible technology enables efficient polishing of aspheric surfaces to submicron form accuracies.
    FIGURE 1. The surface definition screen defines the acylinder's surface.
    Pat Bechtold
    June 12, 2017
    Optically oriented computer-aided manufacturing software ties together metrology and fabrication for acylinders.