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ZERNIKEPOLYNOMIALS

IntroductionOften,toaidintheinterpretationofopticaltestresultsitisconvenienttoexpresswavefrontdatainpolynomialform.Zernikepolynomialsareoftenusedforthispurposesincetheyaremadeupoftermsthatareofthesameformasthetypesofaberrationsoftenobservedinopticaltests(Zernike,1934).

Zernikepolynomialsareoneofaninfinitenumberofcompletesetsofpolynomialsintworealvariables,ρandθthatareorthogonalinacontinuousfashionovertheinteriorofaunitcircle.

SupplementSometimesZernikepolynomialsgiveaterriblerepresentationofthewavefrontdata.Thus,theusersshouldbewarnedthattheblinduseofZernikepolynomialstorepresenttestresultscanleadtodisastrousresults.Zernikesareorthogonalonlyinacontinuousfashionovertheinteriorofaunitcircle,andingeneraltheywillnotbeorthogonaloveradiscretesetofdatapointswithinaunitcircle.

PropertiessimplerotationalsymmetrypropertiesZ(ρ,θ)=R(ρ)G(θ)whereG(θ)isacontinuousfunctionthatrepeatsitselfevery2πradiansandsatisfiestherequirementthatrotatingthecoordinatesystembyanangleadoesnotchangetheformofthepolynomial.G(θ+α)=G(θ)G(α)

Theradialfunctionmustbeapolynomialinrofdegreenandcontainnopowerofrlessthanm.ThatR(p)mustbeevenifmiseven,andoddifmisodd.

Inpractice,theradialpolynomialsarecombinedwithsinesandcosinesratherthanwithacomplexexponential.ThefinalZernikepolynomialseriesforthewavefrontOPD△Wcanbewrittenas

Table(Zernikepolynomials)

Two-andthree-dimensionalplotsofZernikepolynomials

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