Measuring the radius of curvature of a spherical mirror with an interferometer and a laser tracker

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Zhao, Chunyu ^a   Zehnder, Rene ^a   Burge, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser tracker; Metrology; Radius of curvature

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY;

LASER TRACKER; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SPHERICAL MIRROR;

MIRRORS;

EID: 29144444482     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2047594     Document Type: Article

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