{"id":2868,"date":"2017-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/loft\/spires-on-optical-fabrication\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T23:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T23:47:23","slug":"spires-on-optical-fabrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/spires-on-optical-fabrication\/","title":{"rendered":"Spires on Optical Fabrication"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"838\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Spires-on-Optical-Fabrication.mp3'>Spires on Optical Fabrication<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/12\/Spires-on-Optical-Fabrication.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Spires on Optical Fabrication\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Spires on Optical Fabrication\\\" from The Spotlight Report by Spires, Guo, Graves. Genre: Rock.\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"Spires, Guo, Graves\",\"album\":\"The Spotlight Report\",\"genre\":\"Rock\",\"length_formatted\":\"1:05:14\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/audio.svg\",\"width\":48,\"height\":64}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2553\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/04\/spire_moveon-technologies-300x158.png\" alt=\"spire_moveon technologies\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week we sit down with Oliver Spires to discuss optical fabrication. This is a topic often taken for-granted by optical scientists, as optical fabrication is the conversion of a theoretical component to a real and usable piece. Spires discusses techniques and methodologies such as diamond turning and mold pressed optics. Additionally, some of the difficulties and limitations of these methods are covered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we sit down with Oliver Spires to discuss optical fabrication. This is a topic often taken for-granted by optical scientists, as optical fabrication is the conversion of a theoretical component to a real and usable piece. Spires discusses techniques and methodologies such as diamond turning and mold pressed optics. Additionally, some of the difficulties and limitations of these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,41,62],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-diamond-turning","tag-fabrication","tag-molding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3110,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/loft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}