This paper shows the qualitative and quantitative results obtained on the test of cylindrical parabolic concentrators when the screens are designed using dot color changes to guarantee a better dot correspondence assignment and to make the optical test of the concentrator easier; the method allows to measure deformations from tenths of a millimeter to several millimeters, thus demonstrating that null screen method is good enough for testing surfaces with important deformations. On a second approximation, it is designed a null screen corresponding to the surface evaluated with the first one by fitting a fourth grade polynomial with crossed terms; with this, it is shown that the first test gets closer to the shape of the surface validating it.

Date Published: 25 October 2011
PDF: 9 pages
Proc. SPIE 8011, 22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World, 80111R (25 October 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.903315

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8011:
22nd Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Light for the Development of the World
Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Ramón Rodríguez-Vera; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe; Rufino Díaz-Uribe, Editor(s)