Adaptive centroid-finding algorithm for freeform surface measurements

Wavefront sensing systems measure the slope or curvature of a surface by calculating the centroid displacement of two focal spot images. Accurately finding the centroid of each focal spot determines the measurement results. This paper studied several widely used centroid-finding techniques and obser...

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Main Authors: Guo, Wenjiang, Zhao, Liping, Tong, Chin Shi, Chen, I-Ming, Joshi, Sunil Chandrakant
其他作者: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
格式: Article
語言:English
出版: 2013
在線閱讀:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96108
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10100
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機構: Nanyang Technological University
語言: English
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總結:Wavefront sensing systems measure the slope or curvature of a surface by calculating the centroid displacement of two focal spot images. Accurately finding the centroid of each focal spot determines the measurement results. This paper studied several widely used centroid-finding techniques and observed that thresholding is the most critical factor affecting the centroid-finding accuracy. Since the focal spot image of a freeform surface usually suffers from various types of image degradation, it is difficult and sometimes impossible to set a best threshold value for the whole image. We propose an adaptive centroid-finding algorithm to tackle this problem and have experimentally proven its effectiveness in measuring freeform surfaces.