A compact and portable moire interferometer used to determine surface deformations of an object. The improved interferometer is comprised of a laser beam, optical and fiber optics devices (55, 57, 59) coupling the beam to one or more evanescent wave splitters (60), and collimating lenses (70) directing the split beam at one or more specimen gratings (51). Observation means including film and video cameras may be used to view and record the resultant fringe patterns.
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