The tilted-wave interferometer is a promising technique for the development of a reference measurement system for the highly accurate form measurement of aspheres and freeform surfaces. The technique combines interferometric measurements, acquired with a special setup, and sophisticated mathematical evaluation procedures. To determine the form of the surface under test, a computational model is required that closely mimics the measurement process of the physical measurement instruments. The parameters of the computational model, comprising the surface under test sought, are then tuned by solving an inverse problem. Due to this embedded structure of the real experiment and computational model and the overall complexity, a thorough uncertainty evaluation is challenging. In this work, a Bayesian approach is proposed to tackle the inverse problem, based on a statistical model derived from the computational model of the tilted-wave interferometer. Such a procedure naturally allows for uncertainty quantification to be made. We present an approximate inference scheme to efficiently sample quantities of the posterior using Monte Carlo sampling involving the statistical model. In particular, the methodology derived is applied to the tilted-wave interferometer to obtain an estimate and corresponding uncertainty of the pixel-by-pixel form of the surface under test for two typical surfaces taking into account a number of key influencing factors. A statistical analysis using experimental design is employed to identify main influencing factors and a subsequent analysis confirms the efficacy of the method derived.
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Themenbereich der Metrologie
Metrologie in der Medizin
Förderinformationen (1)
Förderername: European Commission (EC)
Förderer ID: 0000 0001 2242 8989
Förderer ID Typ: ISNI
Förderprogramm: Metrology Partnership 2022 Digital Transformation
Titel der Förderung: 22DIT01: ViDiT: Trustworthy virtual experiments and digital twins
Förderungsnummer: 22DIT01
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Marschall, M., Fortmeier, I., Stavridis, M., Hughes, F., & Elster, C. (2024). Bayesian uncertainty evaluation applied to the tilted-wave interferometer. Optics Express, 32(11), 18664–18683. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.524241
