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Optical Instrument Housing Machining: Tolerance Guide
A lens can be perfect and still produce a soft image if the housing holding it moves by a few microns. That is the core problem in optical instrument housing machining. The part looks like an ordinary block with bores and faces, but its job is to hold optical elements in exact spatial relationships through handling, clamping, and temperature changes. Photonics systems operate at wavelengths measured in nanometers, so a lateral misalignment of just 1 µm between a fiber and an
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