As a potential means of measuring birefringence distribution, we analyzed the interference fringes based on three circularly polarized beams: a right-handed signal beam, a left-handed reference beam, and a right-handed reference beam. All beams were crossed at the same angle on the interfering plane, creating a two-dimensional interference fringe with three grating vectors. We proposed that by analyzing the interference fringes, we can measure the anisotropic phase shift in the signal beam. The obtained features of the anisotropic phase shift can be extended to the measurement of two-dimensional birefringence distributions without rotational manipulations of the objectives or polarizers. The fringes were generated by monolithic gratings, which can generate three-beam interfering fields precisely and easily. Finally, we confirmed the feasibility of a birefringence measurement system without any rotational manipulations of optics.

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