Provided in the present invention are an optical aluminum
alloy and a preparation method therefor. The preparation method comprises: step S1, preparing an aluminum
alloy starting
ingot from raw materials by using a semi-
continuous casting process, the semi-
continuous casting process comprising heating and melting, alloying, refining, slagging-off, standing, degassing, filtering and semi-continuous water-cooled
casting; step S2, performing homogenization, end
cropping and skinning on the aluminum
alloy starting
ingot, so as to obtain a surface-treated alloy
raw material; step S3, carrying out rapid solidification treatment on the surface-treated alloy
raw material by means of a
melt spinning method to obtain a rapidly solidified alloy strip; step S4, subjecting the rapidly solidified alloy strip to crushing treatment, and then performing encapsulation and cold pressing to obtain a cold-pressed billet; step S5, subjecting the cold-pressed billet to one to two passes of a hot
extrusion process to prepare a
bar stock; and step S6, carrying out
solution treatment and aging treatment on the
bar stock to obtain a finished aluminum alloy material. The method can refine the
grain structure, and the
prepared material can be machined into highly flat surfaces.