Technique of recording and judging the sign of tilt in one interferogram

摘要

How to record and judge the sign of tilt, that is the sign of configuration error, in one interferogram where the fringes are frozen is presented. If a flat surface is tested by a Twyman-Green interferometer without an imaging lens, not only usual straight and equally spaced fringes but also the extra curved fringes are caused. We can judge the sign of tilt by knowing which direction the extra fringes are curved. The application of this technique to a lateral shearing interferometer is also shown.