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Interferograms

This is how the interferograms from the Bath interferometer look like. Using either fringe-tracing or Fourier transform-based analysis it is possible to calculate the shape of the mirror. The most popular analysis programs seem to be FringeXP and OpenFringe.

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One Response to “Interferograms”

  1. rydel charles Says:
    November 17th, 2008 at 1:12

    Hello,

    Nice pictures ! Have a look to my site, there are two articles about it!

    Sincerly,

    Charles Rydel

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