Wavefront errors in a two-beam interferometer
Instrumentation and Detectors
2020-07-20 v1 Optics
Abstract
The paper deals with the impact of wavefront errors, due to the optical aberrations of a two-beam interferometer, on the period of the travelling fringe observed by integrating the interference pattern. A Monte Carlo simulation of the interferometer operation showed that the fringe-period estimate is unbiased if evaluated on the basis of the angular spectrum of the beam entering the interferometer, but the wavefront errors increase the uncertainty.
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@article{arxiv.2007.08524,
title = {Wavefront errors in a two-beam interferometer},
author = {G Mana and E Massa and C P Sasso},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.08524},
year = {2020}
}
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9 pages, 5 figures