H. Sugawara et al., DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF A PROFILOMETER FOR MEASUREMENT OF MIRROR SURFACE FIGURE, Journal of electron spectroscopy and related phenomena, 80, 1996, pp. 485-488
A profilometer has been developed to measure quantitatively the surfac
e figures of optical elements. It consists of a He-Ne laser source and
a position-sensitive detector mounted on stepper-motor-driven platfor
ms. Its application has been made successfully to the estimate of chan
ges in the surface slope and figure of a SiC mirror exposed to high po
wer synchrotron radiation.