Improved Combined Diffractive Optical Elements for quasi-absolute testing of Aspherics

Gufran Khan, Klaus Mantel, Norbert Lindlein, Johannes Schwider
  1. Institut für Optik, Information und Photonik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

gkhan [at] optik [dot] uni-erlangen [dot] de

Computer-generated diffractive optical elements have widely been in use for testing of aspherics in different interferometric setups. We present a three position quasi-absolute test for aspherics using combined-diffractive optical elements (Combo-DOEs). The calibration procedure works similar to the sphericity test by using three positions, while the Combo-DOE carries the information for the aspheric surface as well as the best fit sphere with a slight linear offset. Further, we discuss the effects of DOE's substrate quality on the accuracy of the proposed calibration procedure and present an improved design of the Combo-DOE. The results obtained with the quasi-absolute three position procedure are compared to an independent procedure, an N-position test.

PDF herunterladen
@inproceedings{khan2006b12,
  author     = {Khan, Gufran and Mantel, Klaus and Lindlein, Norbert and Schwider, Johannes},
  title      = {{Improved Combined Diffractive Optical Elements for quasi-absolute testing of Aspherics}},
  booktitle  = {DGaO-Proceedings 2006},
  series     = {DGaO-Proceedings},
  eventtitle = {107. Jahrestagung der DGaO},
  eventdate  = {2006-06-07/2006-06-10},
  venue      = {Weingarten},
  publisher  = {Deutsche Gesellschaft für angewandte Optik e.V.},
  year       = {2006},
  pages      = {B12},
  langid     = {english},
  url        = {https://dgao-proceedings.de/paper/107-b12}
}
107. Jahrestagung der DGaO · Weingarten · 2006