A shearing interferometer suitable for coherent phasing of multiple-aperture optical systems is described. The interferometer uses the properties of a rotating radial square wave grating to simplify interaperture phase measurements. A theoretical development and the results of experiments conducted at a wavelength of 10.6 microm are presented.
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