Claims
- 1. A method of mounting an optical element, said method using a seating ring flexibly held within an annulus by three flexible elements extending between the ring and the annulus, and said method comprising:
- a. arranging said optical element on a fixture that holds said optical element coaxially adjacent said seating ring;
- b. preloading said seating ring with weight approximating the weight of said optical element;
- c. bonding said optical element to said seating ring while said fixture supports said optical element and said seating ring upholds said preload weight; and
- d. removing said preload weight from said seating ring and removing said fixture from said optical element to leave said seating ring supporting said optical element.
- 2. The method of claim 1 including arranging said annulus in a horizontal plane, arranging said fixture to hold said optical element slightly above said seating ring, and distributing said preload weight uniformly around said seating ring.
- 3. The method of claim 2 including filling the variable width of a gap between said seating ring and said optical element with a bonding material.
- 4. The method of claim 1 including bonding said optical element radially within said seating ring.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a division of allowed parent application Ser. No. 08/079,976, filed 18 Jun. 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,428,482 entitled DECOUPLED MOUNT FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT AND STACKED ANNULI ASSEMBLY, which parent application is a continuation of abandoned grandparent application Ser. No. 07/787,785, filed 4 Nov. 1991, now abandoned entitled DECOUPLED MOUNT FOR OPTICAL ELEMENT AND STACKED ANNULI ASSEMBLY.
US Referenced Citations (13)
Foreign Referenced Citations (2)
Number |
Date |
Country |
230277 |
Jan 1986 |
EPX |
57-210306 |
Dec 1982 |
JPX |
Non-Patent Literature Citations (2)
Entry |
Opto-Mechanical Systems Design, by Paul R. Yoder, Jr., Marcel Dekker, Inc., N.Y., 1986, including pp. 204-209. |
"Precision Mechanics", by David Kittell Short Course Notes, Stamford, Ct., 1989, presented i SPIE's International Conferences on Imaging, Fabrication and Competitiveness in Optics, Rochester, N.Y., 1991, including pp. 14, 45. |
Divisions (1)
|
Number |
Date |
Country |
Parent |
79976 |
Jun 1993 |
|
Continuations (1)
|
Number |
Date |
Country |
Parent |
787785 |
Nov 1991 |
|