RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION AT VEB CARL ZEISS JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001200690009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2009
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germ-my
SUBJECT Research Development and Production at
YEB Carl Zeiss, Jena.
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The follow.Lng is a compilation of the research and development program assigned
by the East German government to VEB Carl Zeiss, Jena:
a. Development
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d. Development
k. Development of a process for deposition by evaporation of a protective
layer, cagy quartz on silver and aluminum for astro and mirror telescopes
1- Development of a technique for measurement of film-layer thickness during
evaporation
m. Development of special machinery for non spherical grinding of compound
lenses
n. Development of ball lathes and similar machines
Firebrick pans
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and construction of a 2 m. mirror telescope
and construction of electron microscopes
of synthetic gems
of oscillator crystals (Schwingquarze)
e. Development of emery grain-size separation by sedimentation
f. Improvement
of polishing rouge, dressing and sorting
Quartz synthesis: one project for optical use and two projects for ultra-
sonic equipment
dimensions so that only polishing is required
Development of diamond-impregnated optical tools and sash: (sinter process)
h. Production of various salts for optical use, i.e. infrared optics
i,. Development of a production process for molding lenses and prisms to final
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