In recent years, the IAC has developed a project that provides the infrastructure, equipment and human resources necessary for the manufacture of mirrors up to 1.5 meters in diameter for scientific and, in particular, astronomical use. These capabilities allow addressing all stages of the production process of optical surfaces: generation, polishing and coating of the same, as well as the necessary metrology to continuously evaluate and characterize the evolution of these processes. These capabilities are available to very few public or private organizations in the world and will significantly increase the role of the IAC and the Spanish astrophysics community as a whole in frontier projects.

The goal of this proposal is to optimize the performance of all the equipment of this infrastructure in order to achieve an extremely efficient manufacturing capacity in terms of both cost and time. Thus, it is proposed to improve one of the most critical and costly stages of the process, which is the verification of the surface quality of the manufactured optical elements, both during and at the end of the process. For this purpose, a verification bench is to be set up, for which a set of configurable optical components (spatial light modulators and deformable mirrors), fixed elements (conventional optics and holograms) and a set of verification elements are required.