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Signal of an autocorrelation low-coherence interferometer probing a layered object by a wave-field with wide angular spectrum
D.V. Lyakin 1, V.P. Ryabukho 1

1 Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
410028, Saratov, Russia, Rabochaya, 24

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DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-821

Pages: 340-349.

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
The effect of the width of the angular spectrum (numerical aperture) of a broadband-frequency wave-field probing a layered object on the signal of an autocorrelation low-coherence interferometer (ALCI) under spatially coherent and incoherent illumination of the entrance pupil is considered. It is found that under incoherent illumination an increase in the width of the angular spectrum of the field leads to a decrease in the amplitude, a change in the shape and position of the measuring signals of the interferometer due to decorrelation of the object field partial components which have reflected from various interlayer boundaries inside the object. In the case of coherent illumination, the ALCI signal is formed in a confocal mode, which leads to the amplitude extraction of the measurement signals are determined by the mutual correlations between a partial component reflected from the boundary on which the probing field was focused, and partial components of this field which have reflected from other boundaries within the object. This effect makes it possible to determine parameters of the internal layered structure of an object doing without apriori structure-related information. In this case, an increase in the numerical aperture of the probing light beam leads to an increase in the systematic error in determining the optical thicknesses of the layers, which can be estimated on the basis of the obtained expressions.

Keywords:
interferometry, coherence, autocorrelation low-coherence interferometer, layered object, angular spectrum, numerical aperture.

Citation:
Lyakin DV, Ryabukho VP. Signal of an autocorrelation low-coherence interferometer probing a layered object by a wave-field with wide angular spectrum. Computer Optics 2021; 45(3): 340-349. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-821.

Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by the RF Ministry of Science and Higher Education within a government project of the Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ref. No. AAAA-A18-118042790042-4.

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