METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE INFORMATION OF OBJECT TO BE MEASURED, DEFECT DETECTION METHOD, AND DEFECT DETECTION DEVICE

This application relates to a method of generating three-dimensional (3D) shape information of an object to be measured from an image including intensity information of an object hologram generated by interference between a reference light reflected from an optical mirror and an object light affected by the object. In one aspect, the method includes checking at least one frequency component included in the image and extracting real image components corresponding to a real image from the frequency component. The method also includes generating a correction light and a real image hologram based on the real image components, generating an intermediate hologram based on the correction light, and generating curvature aberration correction information from the intermediate hologram. The method further includes generating a correction hologram based on the curvature aberration correction information and generating the 3D shape information of the object from the correction hologram.