Analysis of Coordinates Decoupling of Multi-Dimensional Precision Optical Adjusting Frame in Optical Alignment

Abstract

Information technology has much promoted the development of optical technology. With the help of computer technology, people can design and manufacture more complex optical systems than before, to obtain ideal imaging quality. The complexity of the optical system brings enormous challenges to optical alignment. Optical system alignment is the crucial link of transforming the excellent optical design into instruments with good performance in reality. Precision alignment of an optical system requires precise adjustment of each component's degree of freedom using a specific adjusting mechanism. Due to the quantification and compensation correction for the coordinates coupling relationship among each dimension adjusting freedom of the adjusting frame can not be carried out. Generally, the coordinates coupling problem is usually ignored in optical system alignment, to cause the optical adjustment error. This paper carries out an analysis for the coupling relationship among each dimension motion freedom of multi-dimensional precision optical adjusting frame in details by mathematical modeling and simulation, the decomposed transformation for each dimension adjusting mount of multi-dimensional precision optical adjusting frame, and the compensation correction for the coordinates coupling among each dimension adjusting mount. The test results show that this method can effectively reduce the difference between the actual mechanical adjusting mount and the expected optical adjusting mount, to achieve more accurate optical adjustment.