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Wang Bin, Wu Fan, Ye Yutang. Computer aided alignment for of-axis TMA system[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2016, 45(11): 1118006-1118006(7). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201645.1118006
Citation: Wang Bin, Wu Fan, Ye Yutang. Computer aided alignment for of-axis TMA system[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2016, 45(11): 1118006-1118006(7). doi: 10.3788/IRLA201645.1118006

Computer aided alignment for of-axis TMA system

doi: 10.3788/IRLA201645.1118006
  • Received Date: 2016-03-10
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-04-11
  • Publish Date: 2016-11-25
  • To realize the fast, efficient alignment of of-axis thre-mirror anastigmatic (TMA) system, a computer aided alignment (CAA) method was proposed. First, the aberration characteristics in the misaligned of-axis TMA system was theoretically analyzed to determine the evaluation parameters in CAA. Second, the key alignment parameters to be adjusted were given by combining the misalignment characteristics with the actual situation of the optical assembly. Finally, the magnitudes and orientation of the alignment parameters were calculated with the measurement data and CAA model. In order to verify the method, an of-axis TMA system was aligned according to this CAA method. The wav-front error (WFE) of the center and extreme edge FOVs were measured by wav-front sensor. After only once calculation and alignment, the measured root mean square (RMS) WFEs were reduced from 0.32 to 0.067(=632.8 nm). The experiment results demonstrate that this CAA method is feasible.
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Computer aided alignment for of-axis TMA system

doi: 10.3788/IRLA201645.1118006
  • 1. Institute of Optics and Electronics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Chengdu 610209,China;
  • 2. School of Optoelectronic Information,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 610054,China

Abstract: To realize the fast, efficient alignment of of-axis thre-mirror anastigmatic (TMA) system, a computer aided alignment (CAA) method was proposed. First, the aberration characteristics in the misaligned of-axis TMA system was theoretically analyzed to determine the evaluation parameters in CAA. Second, the key alignment parameters to be adjusted were given by combining the misalignment characteristics with the actual situation of the optical assembly. Finally, the magnitudes and orientation of the alignment parameters were calculated with the measurement data and CAA model. In order to verify the method, an of-axis TMA system was aligned according to this CAA method. The wav-front error (WFE) of the center and extreme edge FOVs were measured by wav-front sensor. After only once calculation and alignment, the measured root mean square (RMS) WFEs were reduced from 0.32 to 0.067(=632.8 nm). The experiment results demonstrate that this CAA method is feasible.

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