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of 1 to 3 arcsec, find increasing application in optical metrology. g,
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Reported interferometric techniques for measuring VY9|8g/
the wedge angles of such prisms achieve a precision of up pwvcH3l/r
to 0.1 arcsec ~Ref. 1!, while noninterferometric techniques URFp3 qE
have a precision of up to 2 arcsec ~Ref. 2!. Reported noninterferometric Wqu][Wa[Z
methods have made use of goniometers,2 NHCdf*
spectrometers,3 master prisms,4,5 and collimators.6 However, -^sbf.
in the literature there are few reported methods for =tv,B3Mo
measuring the pyramidal error, and the majority rely on AShnCL8uR
visual observation,2,7,8 by which it is only possible to measure Vp'Zm:
pyramidal errors to the order of 1 arcmin ~Ref. 8!. 8C{mV^cn~
In the new arrangement presented here, one can measure DGwN*>X
the prism angle and the pyramidal error separately or in z$>_c"D
combination. This is possible because the measurements x{X(Y]*1S
are made simultaneously but with different techniques.