Published Papers
Chapter 12: Further Comments on Classical Optical Instruments
There was more interest in Chapter 3 about the classical instruments used for optical alignment than any other chapter to date, and I didn’t have a chance to say all I wanted to, so I will continue the discussion in this Chapter to emphasize how changes in technology have changed the design of these instruments. […]
Determination of the unique optical axis of assembled lens systems
Measuring the quality of alignment of an assembled compound lens is often necessary. This raises the question of what
axis to use as a reference axis for this measurement. We suggest that the reference axis should be the optical axis of the
assembled system and that this axis is unique for each assembly.
Chapter 11: Alignment and Precision Engineering
As I said in the first chapter, I hope to make these articles into a book on alignment after significant editing to organize the material coherently. In that spirit, and before I forget, let me discuss some aspects of alignment and precision engineering that belong in a Preface or Introduction to the book rather than […]
Chapter 10: Index of Refraction and Lens Conjugates
This Chapter is a little out of order but illuminates a topic we have hinted at in previous Chapters, how does the index of refraction affect the lens conjugates we see when doing centration? The immediate interest came from a call I got because some glass apparently got mixed up in a batch of identical […]
Recent Posts
- PSM vs. Interferometer: When to Use Each Tool for Optical Alignment
- Simulation for Design For Manufacture (DFM) and tolerancing of realistic optical surface scatter for Mid-spatial Frequencies (MSF) and beyond
- Ritchey-Common Test & Similar Methods Using AI Image Space Phase Retrieval
- Chapter 23 Alignment of Convex Surfaces
- Chapter 22 – Simulation of the alignment of a Cooke triplet using a Bessel beam reference