Abstract
We present a practical apparatus for characterizing optical aberrations of large collimation mirrors and lenses, and give a detailed analysis of wavefront-detection errors. We utilize a scanning pentaprism technique for precise measurements of local wavefront slopes, and reconstruct transmitted wavefronts via a conventional least-squares method. Our proof-of-principle experiment demonstrates transverse linear measurements of transmitted wavefronts for a 20.3 cm lens developed for Canada's Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission. Our demonstration shows the wavefront-detection precision better than 0.01λ and the divergence-angle resolution less than 20μrad over the range of 40 cm. We model our optical setup using three-dimensional raytracing and find good quantitative agreement between experimental results and theoretical predictions which validates our methodology.
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