Diffraction Effects in Interferometry
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Ping Zhou, James H. Burge College of Optical Science, University of Arizona, 1630 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ, USA 85721 [email protected] Abstract: Besides the geometrical errors, interferometry suffers errors due to diffraction, because the wavefront aberrations of the test and reference beams change as they propagate. This paper addresses errors due to diffraction effects in interferometry. ©2010 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (120.3180) Interferometry; (050.1940) Diffraction
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