Apodizing action of the scanning-rectilinearity error on the spread function of a two-beam interferometer

Архипов В.В. Аподизирующее действие на аппаратную функцию двухлучевого интерферометра погрешности прямолинейности сканирования // Оптический журнал. 2009. Т. 76. № 6. С. 31–33.

Arkhipov V.V. Apodizing action of the scanning-rectilinearity error on the spread function of a two-beam interferometer [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2009. V. 76. № 6. P. 31–33.

V. V. Arkhipov, "Apodizing action of the scanning-rectilinearity error on the spread function of a two-beam interferometer," Journal of Optical Technology. 76 (6), 343-344 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.76.000343

This paper shows that the requirements on the precision of the rectilinearity of the displacement of the movable mirror of a scanning Michelson interferometer can be made less stringent if a symmetric scanning regime is used for which the zero path difference of the interferogram signal coincides with a mirror position that is neutral relative to the beginning and end of the scanning.