First Full Alignment of the CAMERA Testbed Optics

June 11, 2007


The PSF through the dual OAP relay. This PSF was the first attempt, and alignment is not perfect. Further efforts at optical alignment will improve the PSF, but this is certainly good enough to continue with the development of the system.


Interferogram after the third OAP. The interferogram demonstrates that the wavefront is quite flat, but that some distortion is occurring at the left edge.

Aligned testbed layout

(click for an unannotated version)