Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1540474 Optics Communications 2008 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

We describe and analyse a group of multi-step phase calculation algorithms for evaluation of interferometric measurements using the phase-shifting technique. Phase-shifting algorithms are proposed, with a constant but arbitrary phase shift between captured frames of the irradiance of the interference field. The algorithms are similarly derived as so called Carré algorithm. The phase evaluation process is not dependent on linear phase shift errors. An advantage of the described algorithms is their ability to determine the phase shift value at every point of the detector plane. Moreover, a complex error analysis of proposed algorithms is performed and the algorithms are compared to several common error compensating phase stepping algorithms.

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