Method for the optical determination of an intensity distribution

A method for optical determination of an intensity distribution, comprising method steps:

• a) producing a spatially inhomogeneous radiation field of electromagnetic radiation by an active or passive radiation source;
• b) producing a first relative movement between a position-resolving image sensor (2) and the radiation source, so that the radiation field moves along a first measurement path over a sensor field of the image sensor, so that the image sensor (2) is scanned by a first measurement path region of the radiation field;
• c) recording a first image set comprising a multiplicity of position-resolved images of the radiation field by the image sensor during the first relative movement;
• d) producing a second relative movement between the image sensor (2) and the radiation source, so that the radiation field moves along a second measurement path over the sensor field of the image sensor, so that the image sensor (2) is scanned by a second measurement path region of the radiation field,
• the second measurement path being different to the first measurement path and being selected such that the first movement path is not parallel to the second movement path at least in some regions;
• e) recording a second image set comprising a second multiplicity of position-resolved images of the radiation field by the image sensor during the second relative movement;
• f) evaluating the position-resolved images of the first and second image sets at least at points of intersection, locations of which are defined by evaluation lines, a first group of evaluation lines being at least one of specified or determined within the first measurement path region and a second group of evaluation lines being at least one of specified or determined within the second measurement path region,
• at least the first group of evaluation lines comprising at least two evaluation lines which are at a distance from one another,
• and each said evaluation line of the first group having a point of intersection with at least one said evaluation line of the second group of evaluation lines,
• a characteristic gray value respectively being determined for each image set at least for each said point of intersection;
• g) determining a relative intensity distribution at least on a subset of the points of intersection in order to characterize at least one of the image sensor or the radiation field.