Design considerations for the absolute testing approach of aspherics using combined diffractive optical elements

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2007, Pages 7040-7048

  Khan, Gufran S ^a,b   Mantel, Klaus ^a   Harder, Irina ^a   Lindlein, Norbert ^a   Schwider, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CSIR CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; ERRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

COMBINED-DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; NULL ELEMENTS; QUASI ABSOLUTE TEST; SURFACE DEVIATIONS;

ASPHERICS;

EID: 38149095794     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007040     Document Type: Article

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