Research on detection system of optical sights triaxial parallelism

A method for testing triaxial parallelism of optical sights, the triaxial which involve optical sights targeting axis of white & infrared and laser launching axis, is put forward in this paper on the basis of analyzing conventional measuring technique. At first, measuring optical path is improved, and some equipments such as aspherical mirror, high precision CCD camera are employed to eliminate the subjective error; with the analysis of the optical path, the mathematical model of triaxial parallelism is built, and the error factors are analyzed and calculated. Finally the system is calibrated by autocollimation theodolite whose accuracy is 0.5″ and the experimental results show that measurement error is <3″. In a word, the method has great significant engineering value.