Modified alignment CGHs for aspheric surface test

Jae-Bong Song; Ho-Soon Yang; Hyug-Gyo Rhee; Yun-Woo Lee

doi:10.1117/12.826659

21 August 2009 Modified alignment CGHs for aspheric surface test

Jae-Bong Song, Ho-Soon Yang, Hyug-Gyo Rhee, Yun-Woo Lee

Proceedings Volume 7426, Optical Manufacturing and Testing VIII; 742616 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826659
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Computer Generated Holograms (CGH) for optical test are commonly consisted of one main pattern for testing aspheric surface and some alignment patterns for aligning the interferometer, CGH, and the test optics. To align the CGH plate and the test optics, we designed the alignment CGHs modified from the cat's eye alignment method, which are consisted of a couple of CGH patterns. The incident beam passed through the one part of the alignment CGH pattern is focused onto the one radius position of the test aspheric surface, and is reflected to the other part, and vice versa. This method has several merits compared to the conventional cat's eye alignment method. First, this method can be used in testing optics with a center hole, and the center part of CGH plate can be assigned to the alignment pattern. Second, the alignment pattern becomes a concentric circular arc pattern. The whole CGH patterns including the main pattern and alignment patterns are consisted of only concentric circular fringes. This concentric circular pattern can be easily made by the polar coordinated writer with circular scanning. The required diffraction angle becomes relatively small, so the 1^st order diffraction beams instead of the 3^rd order diffraction beam can be used as alignment beams, and the visibility can be improved. This alignment method also is more sensitive to the tilt and the lateral shift of the test aspheric surface. Using this alignment pattern, a 200 mm diameter F/0.5 aspheric mirror and a 600 mm diameter F/0.9 mirror were tested.

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Jae-Bong Song, Ho-Soon Yang, Hyug-Gyo Rhee, and Yun-Woo Lee "Modified alignment CGHs for aspheric surface test", Proc. SPIE 7426, Optical Manufacturing and Testing VIII, 742616 (21 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826659

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Computer generated holography

Aspheric lenses

Optical alignment

Diffraction

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Optical testing

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