In the last few years, synchrospeed polishing has been widely employed in the mass spherical optical surface manufacturing process with the development of the optical polishing technology and equipment. However, the edge collapse appears easily in the synchrospeed polishing process because of the high edge pressure. The principle of the spherical surface synchrospeed polishing process is introduced, and the motion mathematical model is developed. A new multi-mode polishing method which utilizes a big polishing tool combined with a small one to correction on the edge collapse is proposed. A sphere that aperture is 110mm and radiuses is 238mm is polished via the mew method. The collapse radio is decease from 20% to 10%, and the D-value of collapse is deceased from 459.29nm to 68.74nm before and after the correct polishing process. The surface figure accuracy RMS is improved from 90.97nm to 15.97nm accordingly. The experiment proved that the correction method is very useful to correct the edge collapse.
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