Patent ID: 7609390

Claim:
A measurement method for measuring a wavefront aberration of a target optical system using a measurement apparatus that measures the wavefront aberration of the target optical system by detecting an interference pattern, said measurement method comprising the steps of: measuring as a system parameter a shift from a design value of a value that defines a structure of the measurement apparatus and the target optical system; and measuring the wavefront aberration of the target optical system using the system parameter; wherein the system parameter measuring step includes the steps of: obtaining at least one of a thickness of a member that generates the interference pattern, a distance between the member and an image sensor that takes an image of the interference pattern, a central coordinate of the interference pattern on the image sensor, a radius of the interference pattern on the image sensor, a linearity gain used to adjust a variance amount of the wavefront aberration of the target optical system, and an absolute value used to adjust an absolute amount of the wavefront aberration of the target optical system; and storing as the system parameter the at least one of the thickness of the member that generates the interference pattern, the distance between the member and the image sensor that takes the image of the interference pattern, the central coordinate of the interference pattern on the image sensor, the radius of the interference pattern on the image sensor, the linearity gain used to adjust the variance amount of the wavefront aberration of the target optical system, and the absolute value used to adjust the absolute amount of the wavefront aberration of the target optical system, wherein the step of obtaining a central coordinate of the interference on the image sensor includes the steps of: generating an aberration of a spherical component of the target optical system; obtaining plural pieces of interference pattern data by changing an amount of an aberration generated by the generating step; and determining as the central coordinate a central position having the smallest variation amount of the aberration other than the spherical component among the plural pieces of interference pattern data obtained by the obtaining step.