Abstract

Diffractive lenses are popular in large optical systems owing to their lightweight and multifunctional design. However, they are difficult to calibrate accurately due to the cross talk between the first-order diffraction and the background light. Here, a quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry (QWLSI) with spherical wave illumination was proposed to absolutely measure the focusing properties of diffractive lenses by means of the reference background light, in which the corresponding theoretical modeling was first derived, and then the single-shot experiment on a 210 mm-diameter beam was carried out. The results showed that the measurement error of the focal length was $0.59{\% }$, and the consistency error was $0.008{\% }$.

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