Page 3 of 5 classic telescope testing posted in classic telescopes. Daniel malacara s optical shop testing is the now historic bible on this subject. Books by daniel malacara author of optical shop testing. In this software, the zernike polynomials aka zernikes are ordered in increasing order of n then l. Optical testing atm, optics and diy forum cloudy nights. Optimal design of computergenerated holograms to minimize sensitivity to fabrication errors ping zhou and james h. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. A setup for the optical quality assessment has been designed and built, in order to check the quality of the produced fused silica lenses at production and the overall quality of the telescopes, after the assembly. Validation of quantitative ronchi test through numerical.
It was introduced in 1916 by frank twyman and arthur green. Discusses geometrical optics principles, thin lenses and spherical mirrors, spherical aberration, and diffraction in optical systems. Construction and optical testing of inflatable membrane. Testing of aspheric wavefronts, compensators, and null configurations.
In addition to new chapters and modified material, this revised edition also includes information on. Malacara, optical shop testing, wiley, new york, 1978. Optical flats are sometimes given an optical coating and used as precision mirrors or optical windows for special purposes, such as in a fabryperot interferometer or laser cavity. A designer and constructor of optical instruments, including telescopes, he is well known for his books, including optical shop testing, which has been translated into several languages.
Fringe scanning techniques, now renamed heterodyning or phase shift interferometry, are covered in a. By daniel malacara article pdf available in proceedings of spie the international society for optical engineering 3109 may 1992 with 156 reads. Optimal design of computergenerated holograms to minimize. This book is intended for the specialist as well as the nonspecialist engaged in optical shop testing.
Fringe scanning techniques, now renamed heterodyning or phase shift interferometry, are covered in a completely rewritten chapter. New chapters have been added to cover wavefront fitting and evaluation as well as holographic and moire methods. Malacara is a fellow of the optical society of america and of spie, the international society of optical engineering. Malacara, optical shop testing, where, and n and l are the index parameters. With digital phase shifting technique, only one shot of interferogram is required, so the system structure is simpler with lower sensitivity to the environmental vibration. We report the simulation of an adaptive interferometric null test using a highdefinition phaseonly spatial light modulator slm to measure form and mid spatial frequencies of a freeform mirror with a sag departure of 150.
Apr 01, 1978 the purpose of this third edition is to bring together in a single book descriptions of all tests carried out in the optical shop that are applicable to optical components and systems. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Faster and more accurate optical aspheric testing methods are required in many technical fields. Daniel malacara has 14 books on goodreads with 57 ratings. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Optical shop testing third edition edited by daniel malacara wileyinterscience. They are used with a monochromatic light to determine the flatness surface accuracy of other surfaces, whether optical, metallic, ceramic, or otherwise, by interference. New york i chichester i brisbane i toronto i singapore. In this paper, we demonstrate the development of a pointcloud metrology method for the noncontact, high resolution, high precision testing of freeform surfaces. Interferogramm analysis for optical testing zacarias.
New phase measuring deflectometry device for midtohigh. There is currently a great deal of research being done in optical engineering. Osa advanced iterative algorithm for phase extraction. Daniel malacara s most popular book is optical shop testing wiley series in pure and applied. Optical shop testing wiley online books wiley online library. The state of the art in optical shop testing has made considerable advances in the ten years since the publication of the first edition of this book. Interferometric testing is one of the most powerful optical testing tools, the use of which spans research fields and industries. A designer and constructor of optical instruments, including telescopes, he is well known for his books, including optical shop testing, which has. Page 11 amount of astigmatism is very sensitive to curvature. Optical shop testing, third edition brings together descriptions of all tests carried out in the optical shop that are applicable to optical components and systems.
An optical flat is an optical grade piece of glass lapped and polished to be extremely flat on one or both sides, usually within a few tens of nanometres billionths of a meter. Shaw montana state university conics a conic is a surface of revolution formed by spinning a conic section around the axis. Design and construction of the fast photon detection. Malacara, optical shop testing, wiley, new jersey 2007. The double pass test is the use of the optical flat but it doesnt have to use a ronchi screen to examine the returned image. Pointcloud noncontact metrology of freeform optical surfaces. For those new to the science, it provides the necessary fundamentals, including basic computational methods for studying fringe patterns.
The test system is based on the hartmann method and is suitable for the optical checks of a large number of lenses and telescopes. However, comparing it with traditional phaseshifting algorithms, aia has not been sufficiently investigated on i its applicability. From the measurement of gravitational waves, to aligning the optical components of guidance units, to configuring optical surfaces, it is interferometric testing that creates a. Optical shop testing, third edition edited by daniel malacara. Pointcloud noncontact metrology of freeform optical surfaces jianing yao, alexander anderson, and jannick p.
Daniel malacaras most popular book is optical shop testing wiley series in pure and applied. Classic telescope testing page 3 classic telescopes. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. There are many optical testing configurations that apparently are not related to the original hartmann test. The purpose of this third edition is to bring together in a single book descriptions of all tests carried out in the optical shop that are applicable to optical components and systems. Chapter 30 handbook of optics photonics research group.
It becomes costly to procure components without trust in the prototype shop. Cornejo, testing of aspherical surfaces with newton fringes. In this study i reverse the optical system and use the fizeau interferometer with a planar reference surface, auxiliary components, and the surface of. Test and reference beams have orthogonal polarization. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. I took his testing course astronomical optics long ago, and we then conspired on a join. Optical system design s15 reflector telescopes joseph a. Advanced optical instruments and techniques 1st edition. Daniel malacara, zacarias malacara details the components of complex photographic lenses, astronomical telescopes, visual and afocal systems and terrestrial telescopes, and lens design optimization.
Optical shop testing malacara pdf optical shop testingedited by daniel malacara. Virtual lens plant, canon camera museum instructional videos of the processes, within a flash web interface. Smith modern optical engineering kingslake, thompson, shannon, and wyant, ed. Sorta like asking what the different kinds of music are, in a dozen categories, with discussions of each. This paper complements our previous study on testing a 25.
Optical shop testing by daniel malacara overdrive rakuten. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. Fabrication and testing of optical components wikipedia. Figure 1 optical schematics for the foucault test of a spherical mirror. We also describe some optical procedures using doppler shifts to measure velocities. The n index is effectively the radial power and l corresponds. Of all tests carried out in the optical shop that are applicable to optical. New phase measuring deflectometry device for midtohigh spatial frequency surface metrology. By means of a computer program, based on the subaperture annular information, complete information about the entire surface can be derived. Introduction phase retrieval can be used to determine the aberrated wavefront optical field without the need of calibrated interferometers or wavefront sensors. The list of publications in optical testing is so large that it is. A ronchi screen make it easy to understand for the both the expert and beginner to what is going on ie straight bands is good, not straight not so good. System design of a singleshot reconfigurable null test. A close relationship between the designer and the shop is highly desirable.
The advanced iterative algorithm aia is an elegant, flexible and effective phaseshifting algorithm that can extract phase from fringe patterns with arbitrary unknown phaseshifts. For this, we used a geometric optical test based on optical. Optical path difference introduced by the beam splitter plate. A stateoftheart commercial slm is modeled as a reconfigurable phase computer generated hologram cgh that generates a nulling phase function. Handbook of optical design daniel malacara, zacarias. Optical shop testing 2nd edition 1992 edited by daniel malacara. Optical shop testing 2nd edition daniel malacara optical testing analysis on the parallelism of dwdm filter.
Usually only one of the two surfaces of an optical flat is made flat to the specified tolerance, and this surface is indicated by an arrow on the edge of the glass. A twymangreen interferometer is a variant of the michelson interferometer principally used to test optical components. Stateoftheart direct phase measurement interferometers. Daniel malacara optical testing analysis on the parallelism of dwdm filter. Optical testing and testing instrumentation faculty, groups, labs.
Null ronchihartmann test for a lens maximino avendanoalejo. A parabolic surface is tested with spherical reference wavefronts, and with the analysis of partial annular zone interferograms. In optical testing, both the sensitivities of wavefront phase to the fabrication errors. Testing parabolic surfaces with annular subaperture.
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