Phase Measuring Deflectometry(PMD) is a non-contact, high dynamic-range and full-field metrology which becomes a serious competitor to interferometry. However, the accuracy of deflectometry metrology is strongly influenced by the level of the calibrations. Our paper presents a calibration-based PMD method to test optical flat surface with a high accuracy. In our method, a pin-hole camera was set next to the LCD screen which is used to project sinusoidal fringes to the test flat. And the test flat was placed parallel to the direction of the LCD screen, which makes the geometry calibration process are simplified. The photogrammetric methods used in computer vision science was used to calibrate the pin-hole camera by using a checker pattern shown on another LCD display at six different orientations, the intrinsic parameters can be obtained by processing the obtained image of checker patterns. Further, by making the last orientation of checker pattern is aligned at the same position as the test optical flat, the algorithms used in this paper can obtain the mapping relationship between the CCD pixels and the subaperture coordinates on the test optical flat. We test a optical flat with a size of 50mm in diameter using our setup and algorithm. Our experimental results of optical flat figure from low to high order aberrations show a good agreement with that from the Fizeau interferometer.
Self-referencing interferometry has been widely used in wavefront sensing. However, currently the results of wavefront measurement include two parts, one is the real phase information of wavefront under test and the other is the system error in self-referencing interferometer. In this paper, a method based on maximum likelihood estimation is presented to calibrate the system error in self-referencing interferometer. Firstly, at least three phase difference distributions are obtained by three position measurements of the tested component: one basic position, one rotation and one lateral translation. Then, combining the three phase difference data and using the maximum likelihood method to create a maximum likelihood function, reconstructing the wavefront under test and the system errors by least square estimation and Zernike polynomials. The simulation results show that the proposed method can deal with the issue of calibration of a self-referencing interferometer. The method can be used to reduce the effect of system errors on extracting and reconstructing the wavefront under test, and improve the measurement accuracy of the self-referencing interferometer.
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