Wavefront reversal technique for self-referencing collimation testing
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
We present a wavefront reversal technique to produce a dual-field fringe pattern for self-referencing collimation testing in wedge-plate lateral-shear interferometry. The method requires only a suitably placed cubic beam splitter to produce two replicas of the fringe field formed by the wedge-plate lateral-shear interferometer. One of the replicas has a fringe pattern that is the reverse of the other. With these two fringe fields, the collimation testing has a built-in reference, and the detection sensitivity is twice that of a single-wedge-plate technique. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America
Publication Title
Applied Optics
Volume
49
Issue
4
Publisher
Optical Society of America
Publisher Location
2010 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA
COinS