Ronchi test with variable-frequency rulings

Javier Salinas-Luna; FermIn-Solomon Granados-AgustIn; Alejandro Cornejo Rodriguez; Esteban A. Luna-Aguilar; Juan Jaime Sanchez-Escobar; Juan Manuel Hernández-Cid

doi:10.1117/1.3072956

1 January 2009 Ronchi test with variable-frequency rulings

Javier Salinas-Luna, FermIn-Solomon Granados-AgustIn, Alejandro Cornejo Rodriguez, Esteban A. Luna-Aguilar, Juan Jaime Sanchez-Escobar, Juan Manuel Hernández-Cid

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, Issue 1, 013604 (January 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3072956

Abstract

We present a new method for testing an optical surface. It uses the Ronchi test with variable-frequency rulings and a liquid-crystal display. The rulings can be formed by substructuring the spacing of a Ronchi ruling or combining several classical Ronchi rulings in a single variable-frequency ruling. This change allows us to observe smaller defects on the surface, because it enlarges the spatial-frequency domain of the ruling, and a larger dynamic range of detection of the Ronchi test can be obtained instead of increasing the resolution of the detection of the Ronchi test by iteratively changing classical Ronchi rulings with higher line density. As a result, we have found that it is possible to measure defects on a optical surface that are of size ≥ 57 nm (λ/11).

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Javier Salinas-Luna, FermIn-Solomon Granados-AgustIn, Alejandro Cornejo Rodriguez, Esteban A. Luna-Aguilar, Juan Jaime Sanchez-Escobar, and Juan Manuel Hernández-Cid "Ronchi test with variable-frequency rulings," Optical Engineering 48(1), 013604 (1 January 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3072956

Published: 1 January 2009

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