(AMETEK: Paoli, PA) -- Two established leaders in ultraprecision manufacturing—Taylor Hobson and Precitech—both part of the Ultra Precision Technologies Division of AMETEK Inc., a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, have combined their expertise in precision optical measurement and manufacturing to develop a new process to measure, analyze, and correct for diffractive form errors in three dimensions. This latest advancement in 3-D metrology and correction of aspheric diffractive optics will be unveiled on Nov. 14, 2011, at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Precision Engineering in Denver.

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