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Laser applications and other topics in quantum electronics

Visualisation of the wave-front deformations caused by a phase object by the method of successive double lateral shear interferometry

A. M. Lyalikov

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Abstract: The method of moire visualisation of the wave-front deformations of a light beam propagated through a phase object is proposed. The method is based on the recording of double shear interferograms and makes it possible to obtain real-time moire pictures of the phase object with doubled sensitivity, in which the behaviour of fringes is similar to that in usual double-beam, reference-wave interferometry. The method was tested by studying the regions of thermal treatment of a polymethyl methacrylate plate.

PACS: 42.15.Dp, 42.87.Bg

Received: 28.05.2004

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2005, 35:3, 290–292

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