Pinhole is a key component of the point diffraction interferometer (PDI), therefore the production precision of
pinhole will affect the detection accuracy of interferometer seriously. While the incident light wave is
visible(λ=632.8nm) and material is Cr, Root mean square(RMS) of far-field diffraction wave-front errors can be
counted by analysis of impacts of the hole diameter, ovality and material thickness to diffraction wave. The
simulation results show that we can get data of far-field from near-field data which are calculated by FDTD
algorithm, and the data of far-field based on vector diffraction theory are different from that based on scalar
diffraction theory. Wave-front quality of far-field diffraction wave does not vary with the hole diameter monotonicly.
RMS of diffraction wave-front errors will be 10-7λ while the pinhole diameter is submicron. RMS of diffraction
wave-front errors change little with material thickness. The pinhole shows waveguide characteristics while its
diameter is less than 200nm. When the incident light polarization directions are different, RMS vary with the pinhole
ovality.
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