A simple ball averager for reference sphere calibrations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5869, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Griesmann, Ulf ^a   Wang, Quandou ^a   Soons, Johannes ^a   Carakos, Remi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ball averaging test; Interferometry; Reference wavefront calibration; Transmission sphere

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MOTORS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL CORRELATION;

BALL AVERAGING TEST; REFERENCE WAVEFRONT CALIBRATION; TRANSMISSION SPHERE;

OPTICS;

EID: 29144495879     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.614992     Document Type: Conference Paper

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