Fabrice Wolfs

Background

About Fabrice Wolfs

Started to work at Amos in 2003 for final work at university dedicated to the development of an Ion Beam Figuring Facility AMOS/2004-2006: work into the Optical Manufacturing Division AMOS/2007-2015: In charge of R&D and off-axis Manufacturing division (up to 1 meter) AMOS/2010-2015: Project Manager for Optical Manufacturing AMOS/2016: Optical Manufacturing Manager (on-axis & off-axis Polishing, Diamond turning, machining) Main Polishing Projects- Gaia mirrors (M2, M4 & M5)- Sentinel2-A&B mirrors - Polishing of brazed Optical quality CVD-Sic Mirrors Acquired knowledge and skills: 1) Developments - Optical Manufacturing Software - Ion Beam Figuring Facility for Optics Manufacturing - 5-axis robot controller for off-axis optics manufacturing - Computer Controlled Polishing - Fluid Jet for optics manufacturing - 3D metrology of optical surfaces - Deflectometry - Stitching - Finite Elements Samcef data transfer to optical platforms 2) Optical Manufacturing - Polishing of Silicon Carbide (CVD)- Polishing of low roughness Nickel - Polishing of typical materials for Optics (Zerodur, BK7, Suprasil, Infrasil, silicium.) 3) Metrology - interferometry (including computer generated hologram for aspherical testing)- microscope interferometry - CMM Metrology - laser tracker - deflectometry - off-axis telescope alignment - profilometry 4) Vacuum and linked technologies - rotary/turbo-molecular pumps - Ion sources and probes - Cryogenic testing of mirrors by interferometry - Infrared Camera 5) Optical Software - Code V - Zemax - ASAP 6) Programming Software - Fortran - Visual Basic - Python - Matlab