The impact of polarization on grating performance of the lateral shearing interferometer

Zhengpeng Yao; Xuefeng Liu; Tingwen Xing

doi:10.1117/12.2068814

18 September 2014 The impact of polarization on grating performance of the lateral shearing interferometer

Zhengpeng Yao, Xuefeng Liu, Tingwen Xing

Proceedings Volume 9282, 7th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optical Test and Measurement Technology and Equipment; 92822J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068814
Event: 7th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies (AOMATT 2014), 2014, Harbin, China

Abstract

With the development of modern precision optical systems, optical detecting system requires the accuracy of wavefront aberration to arrive to sub-nanometer level. When the incident field with polarization information, the polarization information will have a significant impact on the accuracy of measurement results by interacting with polarization-sensitive optical components in the lateral shearing interferometer. We propose the integrated interferometer wavefront sensor (IIWS) system, which is based on the traditional lateral shearing interferometer. This wavefront is sheared by a two-dimension diffraction grating in our system, the two-dimension diffraction grating is the key element to analysis the metrology performance. When using a different grating period and shearing direction, the wavefront shearing and phase shifting with polarization information will produce different error, moreover the impact will vary in the different diffraction orders. In this paper, calculation is based on the finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm. When calculation of different polarization state distribution of the incident field, the interaction analysis of shearing phase shifted grating and incidence light play an important role in error analysis. Finally we can get the effect of polarization for grating performance.

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Zhengpeng Yao, Xuefeng Liu, and Tingwen Xing "The impact of polarization on grating performance of the lateral shearing interferometer", Proc. SPIE 9282, 7th International Symposium on Advanced Optical Manufacturing and Testing Technologies: Optical Test and Measurement Technology and Equipment, 92822J (18 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2068814

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Diffraction gratings

Diffraction

Polarization

Shearing interferometers

Finite-difference time-domain method

Magnetism

Phase shifts

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