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Optical Specifications, Fabrication, and Testing

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OPTI 415L/515L

Optical Fabrication and Testing Laboratory

 

Fall, 2009

 

 

Instructors

Teaching Assistant

Prof. Jim Burge

jburge@optics.arizona.edu

Meinel 733, Phone: 621-8182

Prof. Robert Parks

rparks@optics.arizona.edu

Meinel 106A, Phone: 621-4180

Anoop George

ageorge@optics.arizona.edu

Meinel 615E

 

 

 

 

 Introduction and Syllabus

 

 Lab Groups and Timings

 

Labs      [Outline of Lab Sessions]

Lab handout

Lecture Notes

References

Lab 1 - First Order Optics

 

[week of 08/31 to 09/04]

Lecture 1

1) Determination of Paraxial Properties

2) Excel Solve

3) Zemax Files

4) Nodal Slide Link

5) Nodal Slide Paper

Lab 2 - Image Quality

 

[week of 09/14 to 09/18]

Lecture 2

1) Zemax Files

Lab 3 - Wavefront Quality

 

[week of 09/21 to 09/25]

Lecture 3

1) Wyant's Aberration Notes

2) Wyant's PSI Notes

3) MertoPro Reference Guide

Lab 4 - Alignment and Affects of Misalignment

 

[week of 09/28 to 10/02]

Lecture 4

 

Lab 5 - Micro Interferometry and Surface Roughness

 

[week of 10/05 to 10/09]

Lecture 5

1) Paper on Structure Functions

Lab 6 - Test at Finite Conjugates

 

[week of 10/12 to 10/16]

Lecture 6

1) Lab Writeup

2) CaliBall Paper

Lab 7 - Index Measurement and Spectrophotometry

 

[week of 10/19 to 10/23]

Lecture 7

1) Spectrometer Reference

2) Refractometer Reference

3) Refractometer Picture

4) Wyant's Notes [Read Sections 2.2.1 and 2.2.2]

Lab 8 - Measurement of Parallelism, Angle and Transmission

 

[week of 10/26 to 10/30]

Lecture 8

 

Lab 9 - Lens Centering and Wedge Measurement

[week of 11/02 to 11/06]

Lecture 9

　

Lab 10 - Alignment of Aspheres

 

[week of 11/16 to 11/20]

Lecture 10

 1) Paper-Alignment of OAP

Lab 11 - Knife edge, Wire and Ronchi Test

 

[week of 11/30 to 12/04]

Lecture 11

1) Wyant's Notes

2) Testing Paper

3) Pictures

Lab 12 - System Alignment

 

[week of 12/07 to 12/11]

Lecture 12

1) 515 System alignment notes

 

　

Other References:

1.      Technical Report ISO-TR 5460

2.      Principles of Exact Constraint Mechanical Design

3.      ISO 10110; A User's Guide

4.      ISO 1101 Drawings Geometrical tolerancing

5.      ISO 2632 Roughness

6.      ISO 3599 Vernier caliper

7.      ISO 3611 Micrometers

8.      ISO 3650 Gauge blocks