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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2009
Paul Murphy, Rochester, NY (US);
Gary Devries, Penfield, NY (US);
Christopher Brophy, Pittsford, NY (US);
Greg Forbes, North Epping Sydney, AU;
Paul Murphy, Rochester, NY (US);
Gary Devries, Penfield, NY (US);
Christopher Brophy, Pittsford, NY (US);
Greg Forbes, North Epping Sydney, AU;
QED Technologies International, Inc., Aurora, IL (US);
Abstract
A metrology system for measuring aspheric test objects by subaperture stitching. A wavefront-measuring gauge having a limited capture range of wavefront shapes collects partially overlapping subaperture measurements over the test object. A variable optical aberrator reshapes the measurement wavefront with between a limited number of the measurements to maintain the measurement wavefront within the capture range of the wavefront-measuring gauge. Various error compensators are incorporated into a stitching operation to manage residual errors associated with the use of the variable optical aberrator.