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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Carl A Zanoni, Middletown, CT (US);
Assignee:
Zygo Corporation, Middlefield, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ; G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356109 ; 356153 ;
Abstract
A lens system which has a built-in reference surface and which provides an emerging wavefront of variable radius of curvature useful in a Fizeau interferometer or a differential autocollimator is described. By interposing between the reference surface and the test surface a collimating lens whose distance from the reference surface can be varied, an emerging wavefront is produced whose radius of curvature can be varied from some positive value to infinity to some negative value depending on the distance of the lens from the reference surface. The improvement is particularly valuable in measuring long radius of curvature optical elements and systems.