Rotationally asymmetric figure measurement of optical flat using rotational shear phase measuring deflectometry

摘要

Absolute measurement with Phase Measuring Deflectometry (PMD) is gaining importance in industry, but the accuracy of deflectometry metrology is strongly influenced by the level of calibration. In order to improve the accuracy of the PMD to a level where it competes with interferometry, a reference calibration process is commonly carried out to carefully calibrate the systematic errors. The systematic errors obtained by measuring a high quality reference surface can be subtracted from the measurement of a test surface to get its actual surface, however, it could introduce the surface error of reference into the measurement. To alleviate this problem, this paper introduces a technique named "rotational shear phase measuring deflectometry", this technique have the ability of removing the rotationally asymmetric systematic errors from the test surface without using a reference surface. The validity of this technique has been demonstrated by simulation and our experimental results.