<title>Influence Of Alignment Errors Of A Telescope System On Its Aberration Field</title>

Roland V. Shack, Kevin P. Thompson

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1980 · 139 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

It is shown that, for each field-dependent aberration type, the effect of tilts and decentrations is to produce a more complicated field dependence and local orientation of the aberration without otherwise changing its character. Particular attention is given to astigmatism.