Perpendicularity test of the mounting prisms:
The perpendicularity of the prism pieces were measured with an autocollimator.
Two orthogonally jointed surfaces forms a part of a corner cube.
The deviation of the reflected image from retroreflection is the quantity measured by the device.
When the image is retroreflected, only one horizontal line is observed in the view.
If there is any deviation from the retroreflection, this horizontal line splits into two
as the upper and lower halves have the angled wavefront by 4x\theta. (see attached figure)
The actual reading of the autocollimator is half of the wavefront angle (as it assumes the optical lever).
Therefore the reading of the AC times 30 gives us the deviation from 90deg in the unit of arcsec.
SN / measured / spec
SN10: 12.0 arcsec (29 arcsec)
SN11: 6.6 arcsec (16 arcsec)
SN16: 5.7 arcsec (5 arcsec)
SN20: -17.7 arcsec (5 arcsec)
SN21: - 71.3 arcsec (15 arcsec)
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