making apparent to those skilled in the art how the several forms of the present invention may be embodied in practice fig2 a and 2b shows an embodiment of an interferometer 200 for interferometric analysis of an object under inspection 205 u201c object u201d as used herein refers to both the singular individual objects and the plural such as collections of objects a point light source 210 emanates spherical waves of light 215 toward a collimating lens 220 which converts light 215 into planar flat waves 225 planar light waves 225 then interact transmits and or reflects with object under inspection 205 before the resulting light waves 230 move toward image sensor 240 object under inspection 205 may have any shape and be reflective transparent and or translucent in fig2 a and 2b object under inspection 205 is a mouse shaped mirror for illustrative purposes such that the interaction would be reflection and the resulting light 230 would be reflected light the resulting light 230 is ultimately incident on image sensor 240 image sensor 240 is positioned in the image plane of the interferometer 200 i e the plane in which an image of light source 210 as modified by the intervening optical elements and the object under inspection 205 will be in its best focus preferably within plus or minus one depth of focus object under inspection 205 may be able to form such an image on its own e g a.