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Fast, intelligent and high-precision adaptive null interferometry for optical freeform surfaces by backpropagation.
Optics Express
|February 1, 2024
Summary
Deterministic adaptive wavefront interferometry (DAWI) enhances freeform surface testing. This new method uses backpropagation for faster, more precise measurements, significantly improving efficiency and accuracy in adaptive interferometry.
Area of Science:
- Optical metrology
- Surface characterization
- Interferometry
Background:
- Adaptive wavefront interferometry (AWI) is used for freeform surface measurement.
- Existing AWI methods are inefficient due to stochastic optimizations.
Purpose of the Study:
- Introduce deterministic adaptive wavefront interferometry (DAWI) for efficient freeform surface testing.
- Improve the efficiency, generality, and precision of adaptive interferometry.
Main Methods:
- Developed DAWI based on backpropagation (BP).
- Utilized a loss function for simultaneous fringe reconstruction and sparsification.
- Employed a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator for wavefront compensation.
Main Results:
- Simulations showed compensation of up to 168 λ peak-to-valley (PV) wavefront error in tens of iterations.
- Experiments achieved a null test with 80% missing fringes in 39 iterations.
- Experimental results yielded a surface profile error PV of 66.22 λ and measurement error < λ/4.
Conclusions:
- DAWI significantly reduces iterations compared to 3-step AWI methods (20x fewer in fringe reconstruction, order of magnitude fewer overall).
- DAWI offers enhanced efficiency, generality, and precision for freeform surface adaptive interferometry.
- The method is effective even with incomplete interferometric fringe data.
