The invention discloses a common-path radial
cutting liquid crystal phase shift
interference wave-front sensor. The common-path radial
cutting liquid crystal phase shift
interference wave-front sensor is composed of a
polarizer, a radial
cutting system, an LC (
Liquid Crystal Phase Modulator), a polarization analyzer, an imaging
system and a computer. After a
light beam to be detected enters into the wave-front sensor, the
polarizer can be rotated, and the polarization direction of the incident
light beam can be adjusted; then, two bundles of cutting light beams are formed after the incident
light beam passes through the radial cutting
system, the two bundles of the cutting light beams share the same light axis, the polarization directions of the two bundles of the cutting light beams are orthogonal, and the apertures of the two bundles of the cutting light beams are zoomed according to the same proportion; the two bundles of the cutting light beams can be directly irradiated to the LC, and the polarization directions of the LC and the enlarged light beams are kept the same; the computer drives the LC to introduce into N (N is larger than or equal to 3) different phase shifts between the cutting light beams, a polarized component, of which the polarization direction is consistent with that of the polarization analyzer, is obtained in the two bundles of the cutting light beams after passing through the polarization analyzer, and interference is generated; interference images are collected by the imaging system and are sequentially input into the computer in a time-division way, and the wave-front phase of the light beam to be detected can be reconstructed by analyzing and calculating. The common-path radial cutting
liquid crystal phase shift
interference wave-front sensor disclosed by the invention has the advantages that the structure of an optical system is simple, the
impact of environmental vibration and non-common-path error can be restrained, the
visibility of interference fringes is continuous and adjustable, and the wave-front detection accuracy is high.