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Some further aspects of scatter-fringe interferometry
1Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
Applied Optics
|January 6, 2010
Abstract:
It is shown that an interferometer using one scatter plate and a plane mirror is well suited for testing long focus optical systems. Stability is automatically achieved in this system because of its +1 magnification. Two methods of introducing straight fringes into the field in order to examine a nearly perfect optical system, and a method of making scatter plates to give high-contrast fringe patterns are described.
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