{"id":3928190,"date":"2026-09-29T16:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-device-measures-curved-mirrors-absolute-shape-to-within-2-nanometers-without-touching-them\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:02:54","slug":"new-device-measures-curved-mirrors-absolute-shape-to-within-2-nanometers-without-touching-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-device-measures-curved-mirrors-absolute-shape-to-within-2-nanometers-without-touching-them\/","title":{"rendered":"New device measures curved mirrors&#8217; absolute shape to within 2 nanometers without touching them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Researchers at AIST have developed a device that measures the absolute surface profile of curved optical elements with high precision without touching them.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-device-mirrors-absolute-nanometers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at AIST have developed a device that measures the absolute surface profile of curved optical elements with high precision without touching them. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}