Use of a commercial laser tracker for optical alignment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6676, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Burge, James H ^a   Su, Peng ^a   Zhao, Chunyu ^a   Zobrist, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser metrology; Optical alignment; Optical testing

Indexed keywords

LASER TRACKERS; RETROREFLECTOR;

GEOMETRY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SERVOMECHANISMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 42149164390     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.736705     Document Type: Conference Paper

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