Description
The Collimator is an optical instrument consisting of a well corrected objective lens with an illuminated reticle at its focal plane.
The Collimator is often used as a test chart projector for the inspection of infinity corrected objective lenses, e.g. photography lenses. In combination with a telescope, the collimator can also be used for aligning machine elements along the line of sight.
TRIOPTICS offers different collimators depending on the measurement task. As a standard the collimators are set up in infinity setting meaning that they project the image of a reticle to infinity.
Collimators:
The Collimator is an optical instrument consisting of a well corrected objective lens with an illuminated reticle at its focal plane.
The emerging beam is parallel (collimated beam), so that the image of the reticle is projected at infinity. The collimator is usually set up in this way known as infinity adjustment (setting).
Focusing Collimator:
A collimator consists of an objective and an illuminated reticle, which is positioned exactly in the focal plane.
The reticle nozzle of the focusing collimator (finite distance setting) is mounted on an extendable tube to allow the focal point to be adjusted. This makes it possible to achieve finite and infinite distance settings.
Large Field Collimators
To meet customer requirements for testing optical instruments with large field of view, TRIOPTICS developed a new and unique line of collimators providing a significant increase of field of view.
