The invention discloses a method for rapidly manufacturing a small-
caliber silicon carbide reflector substrate, which comprises the following steps of: determining an
optical surface type of a target reflector according to a design drawing of the target reflector,
processing a
concave surface type consistent with the
surface type of the reflector on the surface of a die by adopting a single-point
diamond turning technology, and forming the small-
caliber silicon carbide reflector substrate by utilizing a glass die forming technology. Carrying out
hot press molding on a
thermoplastic resin material in the mold to obtain a convex
surface type polishing head complementary to the
surface type of the reflecting mirror, attaching the
polishing head to a
silicon carbide reflecting mirror blank, injecting a
polishing solution, keeping the reflecting mirror blank fixed, driving the polishing head to rotate at a high speed, and carrying out surface
contact type polishing on the surface of the reflecting mirror blank to obtain the
silicon carbide reflecting mirror. And the surface quality of the polished reflector blank is detected, if the surface quality does not reach the standard, the mold is reprocessed according to the measured surface type, the method is repeated until the
processing requirement is met, the special polishing heads complementary with the reflector surface type are prepared in batches through die forming, and the problem that the efficiency is low due to the fact that the sizes of the polishing heads are limited for the small-
caliber reflectors is solved.