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by LargoLasskhyfv 1960 days ago
Hrm. Taken from https://www.asml.com/en/technology/lithography-principles/le... :

> Flatness is crucial. The mirrors are polished to a smoothness of less than one atom’s thickness. To put that in perspective, if the mirrors were the size of Germany, the tallest ‘mountain’ would be just 1 mm high.

edit: What I meant to say was rather something with that precision reflecting whichever wavelengths are used for laser communications. Which would be infrared, I guess? Or are we talking Maser?