The invention provides a method for measuring an
optical axis in aspheric surface detection by means of a self-aligning
plane mirror, and belongs to the technical field of optical detection. According to the method, the problem that
orientation measurement accuracy of the
optical axis is low in aspheric surface detection is solved. The method is used for adjusting relative positions and angles of the
plane mirror and an interferometer, and enabling the direction of the
plane mirror to be perpendicular to emergent light of the interferometer to generate interference fringes which are in a zero fringe state. A
laser tracker is adopted to respectively measure a space coordinate of one point in space and a space coordinate of the mirror point, in the plane mirror, of the point, and the direction of the
optical axis is obtained through the coordinates of the two points; a compensator is adjusted to be aligned to the interferometer, and an adjustment definition instrument is adopted to be aligned to the
concave surface of the outer surface of a lens of the compensator; the
laser tracker is used for measuring the position of a converge center of the adjustment definition instrument, namely, the position of the center of sphere of the outer surface of the lens, and obtaining a space coordinate of one point on the optical axis, and therefore the optical axis in a detection
optical path is obtained with the combination of the optical axis direction obtained in the step 2; after the optical axis is obtained, mirror body characteristics are measured for positioning an aspheric surface mirror, and measurement and precision analysis can be carried out many times.