Abstract
As the recent fast development in Optics industries, such as digital cameras and cell-phones with built-in camera, the pursuits for smaller, lighter and thinner products with precision optics have made the applications of plastic lenses the dominant approach for fulfillment of same image qualities under weight reduction condition. Therefore, to design, manufacture, test and optimize plastic lenses in fast, simple and low-cost processes is the prominent factor of research development progress in the industries. Based on the principle of point-diffraction interferometer, no environmental influences due to common optical path and without costly reference lenses, this thesis investigates primarily the tests of standard plano-convex lenses via polarized phase-shifting technique for improving accuracy of test data. For obtaining the third-order aberration coefficients by wave-front reconstruction, we use Zernike polynomials in software simulations and experiments for assurance of accuracy of data. Finally, the results would establish the basis on assessment of process parameters in fabrication of plastic lenses and the inspection references for future tests of plastic lenses.