Thin Mirror Animation

This page animates the 3D surface of Davis' thin mirror it is rotated on the test stand in sixteen increments with primary astigmatism included. The fact that the primary astigmatism jumps all over the place clearly shows that it is test stand induced. Spherical aberration was cancelled, because it dominates so completely that the astigmatism (which The mirror was resting on an 18-point floatation cell angled back at 35 degrees. The box represents a height of 1/2 wave on the wavefront.

Animation


Steve Koehler
26 January 2005
steve_koehler@securecomputing.com