Abstract
Synthetic aperture interferometry has been previously proposed as a possible in-process method to measure aspheric form (R. Tomlinson, et al., Appl. Opt. 42, 701, 2003.). Preliminary demonstration utilized a scanning probe consisting of a pair of bare single mode fibers to perform source and receive functions. It was found that this probe did not have sufficient numerical aperture (NA) to measure steep surfaces and that simply increasing the NA decreases the light gathering efficiency substantially. In this paper, we introduce supplementary optics to increase the NA, and the light gathering efficiency has been increased by adopting an anamorphic design. A spherical test optic of known form is measured to demonstrate the capability of the new probe design.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
Jan G. Dil, Peter F. Greve, and Wichert Mesman
Appl. Opt. 17(4) 553-557 (1978)
Amiya Biswas and Jeremy Coupland
Appl. Opt. 49(20) 3883-3893 (2010)
Richard Tomlinson, Jeremy M. Coupland, and Jon Petzing
Appl. Opt. 42(4) 701-707 (2003)