Bob Parks
Bob is President of Optical Perspectives Group, LLC, an optical engineering consulting firm that specializes in optical metrology and the hardware side of producing optical systems. Because he has worked both behind a desk and in optical shops fabricating and testing optics he brings nearly 40 years of practical experience to the design and manufacture of optical hardware. Optical Perspectives markets an autostigmatic microscope, the PSM, and CaliBall for calibrating interferometer transmission spheres.
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How to Use the Center of Curvature Report to Aid System Alignment
- By Bob Parks
- Published 31 July 2006
- User Articles , Analysis Features
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Centered optical systems are relatively easy to design and align, but when decentered and tilted surfaces are used , alignment becomes difficult unless you have a plan. This article describes how to use the Center of Curvature report to give the necessary datums for system alignment.