Harmonically matched diffraction grating pair

Details Harmonically matched diffraction grating pair Harmonically matched diffraction grating pair

2007-06-28

2009-10-27

Lyons, Michael A (Department: 2877)

Optics: measuring and testing

By light interference

Having wavefront division

C356S520000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07609392

ABSTRACT:
A method and device realize shallow gratings-based planar beam splitter/combiner. Non-trivial phase shifts between different ports of resulting interferometers are used to acquire full-field phase measurements. The non-trivial phase shifts between different ports of the planar beam splitter/combiner can be adjusted by simply shearing one grating with respect to the second grating. The two shallow diffraction gratings are harmonically-related and can be recorded on a single substrate for compact interferometric based schemes. During the recording process, the two gratings are aligned such that the grating planes and the grating vectors are parallel to that of each other. The relative phase of the recording beams controls the shearing between the recorded harmonically-related shallow phase gratings. The relative shearing of the two gratings defines the non-trivial phase shift between different ports of the compact planar beam splitter/combiner.

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