Patent ID: 7835012

Claim:
An alignment interferometer telescope apparatus, comprising: a coherent laser source configured to produce a coherent laser wave; a first beam splitter configured to receive the coherent laser wave and to split the coherent laser wave into a reference path laser wave and into a test path laser wave, the test path laser wave to be transmitted to an object outside the alignment telescope interferometer apparatus and to be returned to an interference location within the alignment interferometer telescope apparatus upon reflection from the object; a reference spherical mirror configured to receive the reference path laser wave and to reflect the reference path laser wave to the interference location; a light source configured to produce a light; a first reticle configured to receive the light and to project a projected image; a second reticle comprising a reference image, the second reticle configured to receive the projected image and to superimpose the projected image with the reference image; a second beam splitter configured to receive the projected image as a first beam, the first beam to be transmitted to the object, to be returned to the second reticle upon reflection from the object, and to be superimposed with the reference image, wherein the interference location is configured to combine the reference path laser wave and the test path laser wave to produce a combined laser wave.