Wave-front reconstruction from multidirectional phase derivatives generated by multilateral shearing interferometers

Opt Lett. 2005 Feb 1;30(3):245-7. doi: 10.1364/ol.30.000245.

Abstract

To increase the accuracy of wave-front evaluation, we propose to exploit the natural capability of multiple lateral shearing interferometers to measure simultaneously more than two orthogonal phase derivatives. We also describe a method, based on Fourier-transform analysis, that uses this multiple information to reconstruct the wave-front under study.