Open AccessMach-Zehnder diffracted beam interferometer
Author(s) -
Raúl de la Fuente,
Elena López Lago
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.15.003876
Subject(s) - optics , interferometry , mach–zehnder interferometer , interference (communication) , wavefront , diffraction , phase retrieval , physics , astronomical interferometer , beam (structure) , computer science , telecommunications , fourier transform , channel (broadcasting) , quantum mechanics
We use a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with two afocal systems to generate the interference between an image and a diffracted copy of a test beam. The interference data is inserted in an iterative algorithm for phase retrieval. We carry out a numerical study of the performance of this wavefront reconstruction technique with simulated data and we present also experimental results obtained using several lenses as test objects.