Abstract
A three-step quasi-absolute testing method for optical cylinders is proposed in this Letter. Three measurements are taken at the so-called cat's eye position and confocal null testing positions with a computer-generated hologram (CGH) rotated around the axis parallel to that of the cylinder. The quasi-absolute surface error of the cylinder is obtained by simple operations including addition/subtraction and flip of the datasets. The uncertainty is traceable to an optical flat. Two different CGHs are used for a convex cylinder and give consistent quasi-absolute testing results of the surface error, which experimentally validates the method.
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