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<title>Alignment sensitivities of the conjugate null test</title>

H. Philip Stahl

Year: 1994 Journal:   Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Vol: 2263 Pages: 218-225   Publisher: SPIE

Abstract

The conjugate null test is commonly used to test surface errors of conic mirrors. Unfortunately, its accuracy is limited by rigid body misalignment errors. This paper derives the misalignment aberrations for these errors.

Keywords:
Conic section Null (SQL) Conjugate Computer science Conjugate gradient method Algorithm Optics Physics Mathematics Geometry Mathematical analysis Data mining

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