This deck illustrates the need to deproject interferometry of echelle gratings to understand the origin of instrumental artifacts in the device development process.
now we’re learning something, because de-projected images look like what engineers see. shadow of grating holder Shadow of grating holder Photoresist thickening at edge Periodic structures resembling Newton’s fringes Comets from photoresist spin Photoresist thickening at edge de-project
of grating holder Shadow of grating holder Photoresist thickening at edge Periodic structures resembling Newton’s fringes Comets from photoresist spin Horizontal artifact, probably from using the cart and slit. high pass filtering* is: way faster than fitting Zernike polynomials. k ~ 51 pixels is the median smoothing kernel d = d - median( d, k )