两步广义相移干涉术的光学实验验证

提出了一种基于两步广义相移干涉术的波前再现技术以及基于衍射场统计特性的未知相移值提取算法,并且进行了光学实验验证.该方法中可仅利用两幅干涉图及一次不需精确预设的未知相移,参照物光光强和参考光光强,即可通过计算提取真实的相移量,进而恢复出物波波前复振幅,而无需借助傅里叶谱分析或数字滤波等操作.在光学实验中,对借助于空间光调制器（SLM）的间接输入和三维漫反射物体直接输入两种情况进行了详细地研究,得到的光学实验结果验证了所提方案的有效性和可行性. 关键词： 信息光学 相移干涉术 波前再现 数字图像处理     

优化的两步相移算法在图像加密中的应用研究

优化了此前提出的两步相移算法,仅通过两幅去除背景光强(或抑制直流分量)后的干涉图数据和一个(0,π)区间的相移值,就可以成功再现出原始物波场信息,无需借助于物光光强、参考光光强等其他辅助测量信息.与菲涅耳域的双随机相位编码技术结合,该优化算法可以应用于图像加密方案中,通过计算机仿真实验验证了所提方案的可行性,并对几何密钥的灵敏度进行了测试分析.     

基于两步正交相移干涉的振幅图像光学加密技术

提出一种基于两步正交相移干涉的光学图像加密技术.这种相移干涉数字全息只要记录两幅干涉图,不需要记录物光波和参考光波的强度信息,就可以再现没有零级像和共轭像的再现像.物光波对应的光路经过两次菲涅尔变换,并结合双随机相位编码.参考光分别引入0和π/2相位,用数字化记录介质记录两幅数字全息图作为加密图像.解密时只要获得正确的密钥,经过简单的计算就可以重建清晰的原始图像.模拟实验验证了它的可行性和有效性,分析了抗裁剪和噪音的鲁棒性.     

相移相位测量的全息再现算法及测量误差分析

用全息原理和方法研究相移相位测量,得到了N步整周期相移再现物光波复振幅同步叠加函数(N步相移函数),同时提出一种新的相移相位测量误差分析和最大误差估计方法。N步相移干涉图是以理想平行光为参考光的无衍射同轴全息图,将其与对应的相移参考光相乘后求和得到N步相移函数;在理想情况下,这是一种复振幅分离、测量和物光波复振幅函数同步叠加方法,存在误差时计算出的相位是最小二乘方法的最佳期望结果。利用N步相移函数得到的N 1步相移函数,说明非理想N步相移函数是理想N步相移函数与误差函数之和,可以把相位型误差转化为与振幅和强度相对误差同等的误差来对待,降低了相位测量中误差估计的难度,给出了N步相移算法最大误差的估计方法和公式。     

Dual-channel phase-shifting interferometry for microscopy with second wavelength assistance

Dual-channel phase-shifting interferometry for simultaneous phase microscopy is presented. Red and blue light beams are used for microscope illumination. A 45 tilted beamsplitter replicates the object and reference waves in red light together with the object wave in blue light into two parallel beams. The two resulting quadrature phase-shifting interferograms in red light and the object waves in blue light are generated in the two channels. The two interferograms are recorded simultaneously by a color charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, and can be separated via RGB components of the recorded color patterns without crosstalk. As a result, the phase of tested specimen can be retrieved. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated by test performed on a microscopic specimen.     

Parallel two-step phase-shifting microscopic interferometry based on a cube beamsplitter

Parallel two-step phase-shifting interferometry for microscopy is presented, and the recording condition for generalized two-step phase-shifting interferometry is discussed. A 45° tilted cube beamsplitter enables to replicate the orthogonally linear polarized object and reference waves into two parallel beams, respectively. As a consequence, two interferograms with quadrature phase shift are obtained along the two beams, and phase reconstructed with an improved algorithm. To reconstruct the phase distribution from the two-step phase-shifting interferograms, a certain recording condition should be satisfied. However, the recording condition has not ever been discussed before. In this paper, the recording condition for the two-step phase-shifting interferometry is derived and that is: the intensity of reference wave should be no less than two times object wave intensity.     

Shifted-phase calibration for a 3-D shape measurement system based on orthogonal composite grating projection

This paper proposes a novel method for reducing measurement error caused by spectrum overlapping in orthogonal-composite-grating-based 3-D measurement method. For 3-D measurement systems based on orthogonal composite grating projection, spectrum overlapping causes phase of each deformed phase-shifting fringe changed differently, which violates the principle that the shifted phases between adjacent deformed fringes must be equivalent to 2π/3, and therefore results in phase measurement error. The proposed shifted-phase calibration method is based on that phase variation of each deformed fringe is independent of height and reflectivity of the measured object. Three composite gratings are projected on the reference plane, and each carrier channel includes three phase-shifting gratings needed in phase measuring profilometry (PMP). Because the adjacent phase-shifting fringes demodulated from the same carrier channel have the phase difference of 2π/3, we can respectively calculate the reference plane's phases of three carrier channels by the phase algorithm of PMP method, and the shifted phases between them are obtained. When an object is measured, the shifted phases between deformed phase-shifting fringes can be calibrated. A new 3-D measurement mathematical model is set to reconstruct object. Our experiments prove that the proposed method can effectively restrain the effect of spectrum overlapping and improve measurement accuracy almost one times.     

Quantitative detection and compensation of phase-shifting error in two-step phase-shifting digital holography

Phase-shifting digital holographic technique is a powerful tool for the measurement of various physical parameters, such as object deformation and liquid or cell’s refractive index change. However, for an accurate measurement, phase-shifting error in the reference wave path is still a major issue. In this paper, three novel and simple algorithms are proposed to quantitatively detect and correct phase-shifting error for a pure phase object in two-step phase-shifting digital holography. Influence of phase-shifting error is illustrated, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is demonstrated by numerical simulation results.     

Parallel-quadrature phase-shifting digital holographic microscopy using polarization beam splitter

We present a digital holography microscopy technique based on a parallel-quadrature phase-shifting method. Two π/2 phase-shifted holograms are recorded simultaneously using polarization phase-shifting principle, slightly off-axis recording geometry, and two identical CCD sensors. The parallel phase-shifting is realized by combining circularly polarized object beam with a 45° degree polarized reference beam through a polarizing beam splitter. DC term is eliminated by subtracting the two holograms from each other and the object information is reconstructed after selecting the frequency spectrum of the real image. Both amplitude and phase object reconstruction results are presented. Simultaneous recording eliminates phase errors caused by mechanical vibrations and air turbulences. The slightly off-axis recording geometry with phase-shifting allows a much larger dimension of the spatial filter for reconstruction of the object information. This leads to better reconstruction capability than traditional off-axis holography.     

Parallel phase-shifting dual-illumination phase unwrapping

We propose a single-shot phase unwrapping technique using a single wavelength and parallel phase-shifting interferometry. In the proposed technique, an object is illuminated by two laser beams, which are emitted from the same laser, and have different illumination angles and polarizations. Two types of object waves generated by the two beams are separately and simultaneously recorded by a polarization-imaging camera. In the path of the reference wave, an array of phase retarders is placed to implement the parallel phase-shifting technique. A highly accurate three-dimensional shape is reconstructed from a single hologram. We numerically simulated the proposed technique and conducted a preliminary experiment to verify its effectiveness. It was confirmed that millimeter-order height, which was several thousand times the wavelength of the laser, can be reconstructed by the proposed technique without wrapping.     

Numerical reconstruction in in-line digital holography by translation of CCD position and gradient operator method

We propose an approach based on axial translation of a charge-coupled device (CCD) and gradient operator method for numerical reconstruction in in-line digital holography. The object wave in the hologram (or CCD) plane is determined using one position translation of CCD, and a phase-shifting device can be fully avoided. Gradient operator method is further applied to detect the focal plane of an object, and the object wave is reconstructed by an angular spectrum algorithm with the detected focal distance. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are demonstrated by numerical simulations.     

Simple direct extraction of unknown phase shift and wavefront reconstruction in generalized phase-shifting interferometry: algorithm and experiments

An algorithm to extract the arbitrary unknown phase shift and then reconstruct the complex object wave in generalized phase-shifting interferometry (GPSI) without the iteration process and measurement of object wave intensity is proposed. This method can be used for GPSI of any frame number >or=2. Both computer simulations with smooth and diffusing object surfaces and optical experiments have verified the effectiveness of this method over a wide range of phase shifts with very satisfactory results.     

基于正弦和三角波条纹投影的三维测量方法

在现有的针对复杂物体表面形貌的三维测量方法中, 为了完成绝对相位的测量, 通常需要处理至少6幅条纹图像, 限制了测量速度。提出了采用2幅正弦条纹和2幅三角波条纹图来获得物体三维形貌的方法。利用两步相移正弦条纹和两步相移三角条纹得到截断相位, 再利用两步相移三角波条纹得到条纹级次, 减少了投影条纹幅数, 提高测量速度。在得到条纹级次时, 计算三角波条纹强度调制和强度对比度, 与计算相位相比, 可以减少数据处理的时间, 进一步提高测量速度, 同时能减小物体表面反射率的影响, 提高了测量精度。测量最大高度为39 mm的阶梯状标准块, 得到的最大绝对误差和最大的RMS误差分别为0.045 mm和0.041 mm。验证了该方法的有效性和实用性, 在高速实时的复杂形貌三维测量中有广泛的应用前景。     

二阶总广义变分图像放大

提出了一种在相移数字全息中提取相移角的方法.该方法通过在相移数字全息中引入随机相位板对物光波的相位进行调制,使得物光波在全息面上的相位分布成为近似理想的随机分布,进而根据这种随机分布的统计性质对相移角进行提取.计算机模拟结果表明,该方法提取出的相移角与设定的相移角之间的相对误差小于千分之一.同时,经过对比采用随机相位板和不采用随机相位板的计算结果发现,物体衍射光波在全息面上的相位分布具有一定的相关性.     

Removal of residual images in parallel phase-shifting digital holography

Parallel phase-shifting digital holography (PPSDH) is a technique of single-shot phase-shifting digital holography. We found that there are two problems with this technique. (1) Some extraneous noises caused by the intensity unevenness of the reference wave become slightly superimposed on the object image. (2) The conjugate image cannot be completely removed. This is because the object wave causes the phase-shift error by illuminating an image sensor with a large incident angle. To solve these problems, we propose an algorithm for removing residual 0th-order diffraction and conjugate images in PPSDH. In the proposed algorithm, we modified phase-shifting interferometry in order to work through the unevenness of the intensity distribution and applied the Fourier transform technique to PPSDH to remove the residual conjugate image. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm was experimentally verified.     

A composite-structured-light 3D measurement method based on fringe parameter calibration

This paper proposes a novel method for reducing measurement error caused by spectrum overlapping in composite-structured-light 3D measurement systems. For a composite-structured-light 3D measurement system, spectrum overlapping causes parameters of each deformed phase-shifting fringe to change, and therefore leads to phase measurement errors. The proposed fringe parameter calibration method is based on the fact that variations in each deformed fringe's parameters are independent of height and reflectivity of the measured object. Three frames of composite grating are projected on the reference plane, and each carrier channel includes the information of three phase-shifting sinusoidal gratings used in Phase Measuring Profilometry (PMP). With the parameter calculation formulas of PMP, the parameters of fringes demodulated from the same carrier channel can be calculated, and therefore parameter relation coefficients between fringes demodulated from different carrier channels may be obtained. When an object is measured, these relation coefficients can be used to calibrate the parameters of the deformed phase-shifting fringes. A new 3D measurement mathematical model is established to reconstruct the shape of the object. Experimental data proved that the proposed method can effectively restrain the effect of spectrum overlapping and improve measurement accuracy by more than three times.     

Phase-shift extraction and wave-front reconstruction in phase-shifting interferometry with arbitrary phase steps

A new approach to reconstructing the object wave front in phase-shifting interferometry with arbitrary unknown phase steps is proposed. With this method the actual phase steps are first determined from measured intensities with an algorithm based on the statistic property of the object phase distribution in the recording plane. Then the original object field is calculated digitally with a derived formula. This method is simple, accurate, and capable of retrieving the original object field, including its amplitude and phase distributions simultaneously, with arbitrary and unequal phase steps in a three- or four-frame method. The effectiveness and correctness of this approach are verified by a series of computer simulations for both smooth and diffusing surfaces.     

Blind phase shift extraction and wavefront retrieval by two-frame phase-shifting interferometry with an unknown phase shift

An iterative algorithm to extract the arbitrary unknown phase shift in two-frame phase-shifting interferometry and then reconstruct the complex object wave is proposed. In combination with the least square principle and some calculation formulae we developed, this algorithm allows us to find the value of unknown phase shift by using only two interferograms without additional knowledge or measurement. Computer simulations have shown that this algorithm works well for both the smooth and diffusing objects to a very high accuracy over a wide range of the phase shift from 0.4 to 2.5 rad.     

Correction of wave-front retrieval errors caused by the imperfect collimation of reference beam in phase-shifting interferometry

In phase-shifting interferometry (PSI) the standard wave retrieval formulae are usually derived based on the condition of a plane reference beam normal to the recording plane. In practice, however, the reference wave may be a spherical wave of large radius or even have a slight inclination at the same time due to the imperfect collimation and coaxality of the optical system, and this fact will introduce phase distortion for the reconstructed object wave-front. A simple digital processing algorithm without any additional measurements is proposed to determine the unknown parameters of the spherical reference wave and then correct the object wave errors reconstructed with standard wave retrieval formulae. The effectiveness of this method is verified by a series of computer simulations, and its limitation is also discussed.     

On-line phase measuring profilometry based on phase matching

On-line phase measuring profilometry based on phase matching is proposed. While just one fixed sinusoidal fringe is projected on a measured object moving with the pipeline, deformed patterns modulated by the object moving at the same distance moment are captured synchronously by the CCD camera. The phase information of the object in those captured deformed patterns can be predicted using FTP method to assist the pixel matching so as to realize the point-to-point correspondence of the object in the captured deformed patterns. Meanwhile, the equivalent phase-shifting deformed patterns can be extracted. So the three dimensional shape of the object can be reconstructed successfully with an equal phase-shifting algorithm. Numerical simulation and experiments show feasibility and validity of the proposed method.