General phase-stepping algorithm using a Lissajous figure technique

Chunlong Wei; Mingyi Chen; Hongwei Guo; Zhijiang Wang

doi:10.1117/12.312963

30 June 1998 General phase-stepping algorithm using a Lissajous figure technique

Chunlong Wei, Mingyi Chen, Hongwei Guo, Zhijiang Wang

Proceedings Volume 3478, Laser Interferometry IX: Techniques and Analysis; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312963
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Many phase-stepping algorithms have been developed for last decade. Some of them may be more attractive to practical measurement because of the insensitivity to phase-stepping errors. But it should be noticed that all existing phase- stepping algorithm need to know or calculate the phase steps. Why cannot we extract the measured phase without knowing or calculating phase steps. A new phase-stepping algorithm is proposed by our group. The algorithm can be implemented without knowing or calculating the phase steps. Actually, the new algorithm gives important improvements for the algorithms developed by C.T. Farrell and M.A. Player. Based on using Lissajous figures and ellipse fitting, the new algorithm introduces a simple transform for the intensity of the interferograms. New phase extraction expressions are derived. The simulating results indicate that the new algorithm is insensitive to phase-stepping errors and the accuracy of the new algorithm is only limited by the computation truncation errors.

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Chunlong Wei, Mingyi Chen, Hongwei Guo, and Zhijiang Wang "General phase-stepping algorithm using a Lissajous figure technique", Proc. SPIE 3478, Laser Interferometry IX: Techniques and Analysis, (30 June 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.312963

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