Error compensation of four and five buckets wavefront extraction algorithms in phase-shifting interferometer

The phase-shifting method is all along an important wavefront extraction technique in the interferometer. Moreover, to require almost real-time measurement an algorithm with a small number of grabbed buckets is very helpful to the phase-shifting interferometer. Therefore, those algorithms within five buckets are very practical and are given more attention. In the paper, popular phase shifting algorithms within five buckets are compared and new four and five buckets algorithms are developed to compensate for two dominate error sources which are linear phase shift deviation and detector nonlinearity. Numerical simulations and wavefront extraction experiment verify that the proposed compensation algorithms are insensitive to linear phase shift deviation and detector nonlinearity compared with classical four and five bucket algorithm.     

用待定系数法设计误差补偿相移算法

提出了一种以误差补偿为目的的新的相移算法设计方法—待定系数法,该方法首先在算法表达式中引入一系列待定参数,根据对误差补偿的要求提供约束方程,从而解出这些未知参数.待定系数法使得算法设计和误差分析是同时进行的,改变了以往先设计算法再进行误差分析和评价的过程,由待定系数法导出的相移算法对算法设计中所考虑的误差源具有良好的补偿性能.     

干涉仪移相器相位移π/2标定方法的研究

干涉仪移相器的相位标定在很大程度上决定了移相干涉仪的测量精度。本文是用傅里叶变换的原理,测量出推动移相器移动的压电陶瓷堆(PZT)的微位移量,并在此基础上提出了一种用空域滤波法得到干涉因光强分布,并判断其移相误差从而校正移相器步进π/2的方法。本文组建了一套数字平面干涉仪,对干涉仪移相器进行实验,在5步法情况下其移相误差在0.5%以下。     

A numerical comparison of real-time phase-shifting algorithms

Among data acquisition techniques in digital photoelasticity, the integrated phase shifting technique (IPST) can real-time analyze the photoelastic parameters at a video rate of the high speed CCD camera. In this paper, fourteen algorithms are described by different configurations of the rotating an analyzer at a constant rate and an output quarter-wave plate at another constant rate. The theoretical comparisons of the algorithms are given by the simulated phase distributions of the isochromatic and isoclinic parameters of the disk under two cases that the load keeps unchangeable or linear increasing in exposure time of the camera. Then a guideline is given to alleviate the influence of the load changing with time on the IPST.     

Profile measurement of a one-dimensional phase boundary sample using a single shot phase-step method

Phase shifting interferometry is a preferred technique for high-resolution phase profile measurement, but the difficulty in generating the requested shifted pattern has limited the use of the technique to low-noise environment and in case accurate calibration of the phase shifting device is available. In the present experiment, a sample having one-dimensional straight phase boundary is mounted in one arm of an interferometer. One single image of the fringe pattern is recorded, a simple image process is applied generating phase shifted patterns from the original image. Using the appropriate phase shift algorithms, a phase map of the sample is obtained which gives a quantitative measurement of the topographical structure with the resolution of the phase shift method but a single shot recorded pattern.     

Measurement of sub-surface delaminations in carbon fibre composites using high-speed phase-shifted speckle interferometry and temporal phase unwrapping

A high-speed phase-shifted speckle interferometer has been developed recently for studying dynamic events. Speckle interferograms are continuously recorded by a CCD camera operating at 1 kHz with temporal phase shifting carried out by a Pockels cell running at the same frequency. Temporal phase unwrapping through sequences of more than 1000 frames allows the determination of time-varying absolute displacement maps. This paper presents the application of this speckle interferometry system to the detection and measurement of sub-surface delamination defects in carbon fibre specimens. The influence of re-referencing the temporal phase unwrapping algorithm after different time intervals is analysed to reduce the random phase errors produced by speckle decorrelation and vibration. The performance of several phase-shifting algorithms to minimize the influence of the vibration noise caused by the vacuum pump used to load the specimen is also investigated.     

相移阴影莫尔基于迭代LSM拟合

相移阴影莫尔技术相位高度存在着非线性关系,无法在全场获得均匀相移,因而致使经典的相移算法不能得到精确解.对此,提出了一种基于最小方差迭代的相移阴影莫尔技术,该技术通过垂直光栅面等间距移动光栅来产生相移,但光栅移动距离可不采用固定值,所以相移过程灵活|使用在高度解调过程中确定的逐点相移增量来抽取精确的测量相位,实现了相移阴影莫尔技术中固有的相位高度非线性误差补偿.结果表明,该方法可通过干涉图计算光栅的移动量,具有相移器的自标定特性.     

基于随机相位调制的数字全息相移量提取方法

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.     

Quantitative phase retrieval in dynamic laser speckle interferometry

The rapid progress of modern manufacturing and inspection technologies has posed stringent requirements on optical techniques for vibration characterization and dynamic testing. Due to its simplicity, accuracy and whole-field characters, laser speckle interferometry has served as one of the major techniques for dynamic measurement. In this paper, a two-step phase shifting method is developed for quantitative speckle phase measurement, which helps to eliminate the specklegrams needed for phase evaluation and facilitate dynamic measurement. Unlike previously reported two-step methods using fringe patterns with known phase shift of π/2, a small unknown phase shift is employed instead in the proposed method, which eliminates the need for phase shifting devices. Further investigation shows that small phase shifts are preferable over large phase shifts in this method. Shearographic experiments conducted have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed technique.     

Identification of nonlinear recording error in phase shifting interferometry

The phase shifting method for quantitative fringe pattern analysis provides high accuracy if stringent requirements on the component interferogram recording are met. In the paper the issue of detection and identification of error sources in the two-beam interferogram phase shifting experiment is discussed. The phase shift angle histogram and lattice-site representation are applied for that purpose. Special attention is paid to possible nonlinear recording of component interferograms in the presence of linear and nonlinear phase step errors. Four and five step phase shifting algorithms are considered. The superiority of the lattice-site representation is shown. In the case of phase steps equal to π/2, however, the lattice-site representation of shift angles for five frame algorithm does not allow to detect recording nonlinearity. The four frame counterpart shows to be very helpful in this respect. Its properties related to the fringe pattern profile under study, including a defocused Ronchi grating, are discussed.     

Phase shifting algorithms for non-sinusoidal waveforms with phase shift errors

In phase shifting interferometry, phase errors due to harmonic components of a fringe signal can be minimized by applying synchronous phase shifting algorithms with more than four samples. However, when the phase shift calibration is inaccurate, these algorithms cannot eliminate the effects of a non-sinusoidal waveform. It is shown that by taking a number of samples beyond one period of the fringe pattern, phase errors due to the harmonic components of the fringe signal can be eliminated, even when there exists a constant error in the phase shift interval. A general procedure for constructing phase shifting algorithms that eliminate these errors is derived. A seven-sample phase shifting algorithm is derived as an example, in which the effect of the second harmonic component can be eliminated in the presence of a constant error in the phase shift interval.     

Improved determination of retardation in digital photoelasticity by load stepping

Use of phase shifting has revolutionized the acquisition of photoelastic data. Even since its introduction, various researchers have improved the methodology. In phase shifting the problem of ambiguity exists in the sign of fractional retardation in some zones of the model. This has been overcome with the development of load stepping. However, the conventional approach to data processing in load stepping introduces several noise points in the phase map. In this paper a new methodology for data reduction in load stepping, which removes the noise points in the domain is presented. Results from four- and six-step algorithms are analyzed. A normalization scheme to improve the results has been proposed. A comparative study has also been carried out on the evaluation of phase map by phase shifting, load stepping and the new methodology.     

Multi-step phase-shifting algorithms insensitive to linear phase shift errors

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.     

Error analysis of phase shifting by varying the incident angle of parallel beams in shadow Moiré

A phase shifting technique by varying the incidence angle of parallel beams in a shadow Moiré has been demonstrated in the present investigation. Error of phase shifting with this technique is evaluated, since it is not a stringent technique in theory. Furthermore measures in order to increase its accuracy have been suggested. Feasibility of the proposed phase shifting technique has been verified with experiments. It was found that the difference between the recommended and conventional phase shifting techniques could be significantly optimized to be less than 5%.     

相位测量轮廓术(PMP)中光场非线性误差分析

在相位测量轮廓术( PMP)中,探测器的非线性响应是导致测量误差的重要因素.对该误差进行了理论分析和计算机模拟,比较了几种相移算法对这一误差的抑制能力,模拟结果与理论分析的结果一致.提出一种存在非线性误差时光强函数的几何描述方法,采用帕斯卡蜗线描述二阶非线性光强函数,这是一种用角度射线与帕斯卡蜗线交点在横轴上的投影长来表示相对光强的几何模型,形象地表示了探测光强与光栅移动角度的关系,以及非线性误差存在和不存在时的光强变化.同样,文中采用准卡西尼卵形线蜗线描述三阶非线性光强函数,用同样的方法形象地表示了在存在三阶非线性时探测光强与光栅移动角度的关系,以及非线性误差存在和不存在时的光强变化,可为实际应用中合理地选择算法和直观的评估非线性导致的光强变化提供帮助.     

Full field automated evaluation of the quarter wave plate retardation by phase stepping technique

Quarter wave plates are optical elements commonly used in photoelasticity to obtain circularly polarized light. They divide the incident light field into two linearly polarized orthogonal components with a phase difference of a quarter of the light wavelength. Due to the tolerance in manufacturing, however, the actual phase shifting produced by the plates is affected by an error, which noticeably influences the photoelastic measurements performed by means of various automated methods. This paper presents a technique, based on the phase stepping method, for the full field automatic evaluation of the quarter wave plate error.     

Conversion from phase map to coordinate: Comparison among spatial carrier, Fourier transform, and phase shifting methods

For full-field phase measurement methods, many algorithms have been developed to extract a phase map from fringe image(s). Both phase wrapping and unwrapping algorithms have been extensively investigated by many researchers, but few papers can be found on how to calculate the coordinates of surface points from a phase map. This paper focuses on algorithms that show how a phase map can be used to calculate coordinates. Details are given for single image methods such as Fourier transform, spatial carrier methods, and multiple image methods like traditional phase-shifting methods. Algorithms that can be used to convert a phase map to coordinates and some issues related to these conversion algorithms are discussed. An artifact is measured using these phase measurement methods. The results show that using the correct algorithm to convert a phase map to coordinates is a key to obtaining accurate measurement results.     

A digital spatial carrier for wavelet phase extraction

In this paper, we present a new method to digitally add a high-frequency spatial carrier in order to use the wavelet phase extraction algorithm, which leads directly to the phase without the unwrapping process. The method needs a fringe pattern and its π/2 shifted version. The application is performed with two shifted fringe patterns obtained from the phase shifting images of the thermomechanical study of an MOS power transistor. A comparison with the phase shifting results is made.