Abstract

We propose a practical theoretical model of an interference microscope that includes the imaging properties of optical systems with partially coherent illumination. We show that the effects on measured topography of a spatially extended, monochromatic light source at low numerical apertures can be approximated in a simplified model that assumes spatially coherent light and a linear, locally shift-invariant transfer function that accounts for optical aberrations and the attenuation of diffracted plane wave amplitudes with increasing spatial frequencies. Simulation of instrument response using this model agrees with methods using numerical pupil-plane integration and with an experimental measurement of surface topography.

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