This paper reports on Center for Optics Manufacturing (COM) industry-academic collaborative developments that incorporate computer-aided deterministic manufacturing technology to produce highly precise spherical and aspherical optics. COM initiated developments in computer numerically controlled deterministic microgrinding equipment and magnetorheological finishing processes are eliminating the industry's reliance on the specialized skills required to operate today's costly and labor-intensive conventional manufacturing processes. These enabling technologies extend the manufacturing state-of-the-art and provide optical manufacturers with the cost effective capability to produce the most difficult optics.

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