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Field guide to interferometric optical testing / Eric P. Goodwin, James C. Wyant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodwin, Eric P., author.
- Series:
- SPIE field guides ; FG10.
- SPIE field guides ; v. FG10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Optical instruments--Testing.
- Optical instruments.
- Interferometry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 100 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
- Other Title:
- Interferometric optical testing.
- Place of Publication:
- Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE, 2006.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- A distillation of Dr. Wyant's course at the University of Arizona, this Field Guide covers the key fundamentals of interferometry, types of interferometers and interferograms, concepts of phase-shifting interferometry, long-wavelength interferometry, testing of aspheric surfaces, measurement of surface microstructure, flat and curved surface testing, and absolute measurements.
- Contents:
- Glossary
- Fundamentals of interferometry
- Two-beam interference equation
- Basic concepts and definitions
- Conditions for obtaining fringes
- Visibility
- Spatial coherence
- Polarization
- Beamsplitters
- Plate and pellicle beamsplitters
- The interferometer
- Classic Fizeau interferograms
- Newton's rings
- Twyman-Green interferometer
- Compensating plate
- PBS-based Twyman-Green interferometer
- Laser-based Fizeau
- Mach-Zehnder interferometer
- Beam testing
- Lateral shear interferometry
- Rotating grating LSI
- Radial shear interferometer
- Interferograms
- Wavefront aberration coefficients
- Zernike polynomials
- RMS wavefront error
- Spherical aberration interferograms
- Astigmatism interferograms
- Interferograms-other aberrations
- Moiré
- Moiré and interferograms
- Phase-shifting interferometry
- Direct phase measurement
- Methods for phase shifting
- Continuous phase shifting
- Liquid crystal retarder
- Phase shifting algorithms
- Basic phase Unwrapping
- Phase-stepping vs. phase-ramping
- Errors in PSI
- Quantization errors
- Incorrect phase shift
- Avoiding vibrations
- Spatial synchronous and Fourier methods
- Spatial carrier interferometry
- Ground glass
- Surface microstructure
- Nomarski interference microscope
- Fringes of equal chromatic order (FECO)
- Phase-shifting interference microscope
- Multiple-wavelength interferometer.
- Vertical scanning techniques
- Flat surface testing
- Mirrors : continued
- Windows : continued
- Prisms
- Corner cubes
- Curved surface testing
- Testing curved surfaces-test plate
- Curved surfaces : Twyman-Green
- Curved surfaces : laser-based Fizeau
- Testing lenses or lens systems
- Shack cube interferometer
- Scatterplate interferometer
- Phase-shifting scatterplate interferometer
- Long-wavelength interferometry
- Smartt point diffraction interferometer
- Phase shifting a PDI
- Sommargren diffraction interferometer
- Curved surfaces, VSWLI
- Absolute measurements
- Absolute measurements : flats
- Absolute measurements : spheres
- Asphere testing
- Aspheric surfaces
- Aspheric testing
- Hyperboloid null tests
- Offner null
- Holographic null optics
- CGH basics
- CGH design guidelines
- Non-null tests
- Reverse raytracing
- Sub-Nyquist interferometry
- Appendices
- Non-Interferometric testing
- Foucault (knife-edge) test
- Ronchi test
- Equation summary
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- "SPIE digital library."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-96) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780819478252
- OCLC:
- 435912034
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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