Wavefront error simulator for evaluating optical testing instrumentation
Abstract
A wavefront error simulator has been designed and fabricated to evaluate experimentally test instrumentation for the Large Space Telescope (LST) program. The principal operating part of the simulator is an aberration generator that introduces low-order aberrations of several waves magnitude with an incremented adjustment capability of lambda/100. Each aberration type can be introduced independently with any desired spatial orientation.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- November 1975
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1975ApOpt..14.2756G
- Keywords:
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- Aberration;
- Hubble Space Telescope;
- Instrument Errors;
- Optical Correction Procedure;
- Simulators;
- Wave Front Deformation;
- Astigmatism;
- Design Analysis;
- Error Analysis;
- Holography;
- Light Sources;
- Optical Measuring Instruments;
- Test Equipment;
- Instrumentation and Photography;
- OPTICAL TESTING;
- TELESCOPES;
- OPTICAL DESIGN