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Field guide to interferometric optical testing /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodwin, Eric P.
Corporate Author: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Other Authors: Wyant, James C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bellingham, Wash. (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, 2006.
Series:SPIE field guides ; FG10.
Subjects:
Interferometry.
Optical instruments > Testing.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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
  • MoirĂ©
  • MoirĂ© 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
  • Long-wavelength interferometry
  • Appendices
  • Non-Interferometric testing
  • Foucault (knife-edge) test
  • Ronchi test
  • Equation summary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.