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APPLIED OPTICS
Volume 39, Issue 13, Pages 2122-2129Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002122
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Peak-valley accuracy of lambda/20 over a range of 2 lambda is not unusual in an interferometric null test. For the larger dynamic ranges of a nonnull test, however, the fringe-imaging optics degrades the accuracy. We classify the errors introduced and analyze them in the context of both general and third-order aberration theory. Ne can predict the measurement error fi-om known interferometer parameters, and we illustrate this for a single mirror. The errors are tabulated for the specific case of a fourth-order asphere with 100 mu m of sag. Ne show that the third-order approximation is comparable with exact ray-trace results for this case. (C) 2000 Optical Society of America.
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