Abstract
Lateral shear interferometry is used to obtain the lateral aberrations of a lens. The zeroth-order fringe in an interferogram obtained from a wedge-plate lateral shear interferometer, however, directly displays the lateral aberration curve of a test lens. Nevertheless, the intensity distribution, is cosinusoidal. Multiple-beam interferometry results in sharpened fringes; hence the multiple-beam wedge-plate shear interferometer displays the lateral aberration curve of a lens sharply, provided the shear is small. For large shear, some new artifacts appear in the interferogram, which are also explained.
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