Sequential hologram interferometry with diffusely illuminated objects

Two simple holographic multiplexing techniques for sequential hologram interferometry of a diffusely illuminated object are described. These techniques enable one to use the frozen-fringe hologram interferometry to study a quasi-continuous change in the object and so regain some of the advantages of real-time hologram interferometry. In the first method of multiplexing with a single reference beam, a small angle prism is used for varying the direction of the reference beam between successive exposures and a double-exposure hologram is recorded at each position of the prism. In the second method of multiplexing with multiple reference beams, a separate reference beam is used for recording each state of the object independently and the interference pattern between any two states is obtained by simultaneous reconstruction of two light fields. The advantage of this method over the previous one is that it is also suitable for dynamic studies. Some reconstructed interferograms of a diffusely illuminated transparent object under different stresses are presented as illustrations.     

数字全息干涉术用于微波等离子体推进器羽流场的研究

利用数字全息干涉术研究了微波等离子体推进器羽流场的分布特征,由所记录的羽流场的数字全息图,经数值再现,得到了羽流场的相位分布,进而计算出等离子体羽流场的电子数密度.通过相位倍增法增加了羽流场的干涉条纹密度,从而能够更直观地反映出羽流场的折射率分布.结果表明,数字全息干涉术是研究微波等离子体推进器羽流场的一种有效方法.     

Fringe localization and visibility in hologram and classical broad source interferometry

The concepts of fringe localization and visibility in classical broad source and hologram interferometry are discussed and a distinction is drawn between them. Experimental results are used to demonstrate that in general there is no unique region of localization in hologram interferometry. The expression for the maximum viewing aperture for observation of fringes of good contrast at the surface under study is verified.     

Dual hologram interferometry

This report describes dual hologram interferometry, a new electro-optic technique used to calculate two-dimensional density distributions from measurable changes in index of refraction. Using this technique, two scenes recorded at different times are stored in separate holograms. One hologram contains reference data depicting the subject in an undisturbed state and the other hologram describes the same subject in a test or disturbed condition. Desired interference patterns are obtained by super-imposing the two separate scenes which are simultaneously reconstructed from each hologram. Specific interferograms, infinite fringe and various finite fringe patterns, are obtained by carefully regulating the optical attitude between the holograms and the reference beam during reconstruction of the scenes. In this project, dual hologram interferometry is used to describe quantitatively free convection from a uniformly heated right circular cylinder. Temperature distributions through the boundary layer and local heat transfer coefficients are determined at different azimuth positions. The results are compared both to experimental data obtained from another holographic technique and to a theoretical prediction of this specific test. This investigation shows that dual hologram interferometry accurately records changes in index of refraction which means the technique can be used to accurately measure experimental fluid flow data.     

三维超声驻波场的数字全息测量与重建研究

利用数字全息干涉术研究了超声驻波场的三维分布特征,由所记录的不同角度的超声驻波场的数字全息图,经数值再现,得到了超声驻波场的强度和相位差分布图,进而由迭代重建算法重建出超声驻波场的三维分布曲线。结果表明,数字全息干涉术与迭代重建算法相结合是测量与重建三维超声驻波场的一种方便有效方法。     

Single-shot phase-shifting digital holography with a photon-sieve-filtering telescope

A method of single-shot phase-shifting digital holography with a photon-sieve-filtering telescope is proposed. Three copy images with different phases are first generated by use of a monofocal photon-sieve filter in Kepler telescope, and then interfere with the reference plane wave by a beam combiner. The hologram is captured by a charge-coupled device(CCD)in one single exposure. The complex-valued amplitude of the test object can be reconstructed by three-step phase-shifting interferometry through three frames of extracted sub-interferograms from the single-exposure hologram. The principle and simulation experiments are carried out and verified the validity of our proposed method. This method can be applied for snapshot imaging and three-dimensional object construction.     

Aberration-free lateral shear holographic interferometry

Lateral shear interferometry is considered as a possible means for optical correction of wave fronts reconstructed from singly and doubly exposed holograms. Optical aberrations are eliminated in a moiré pattern by superposing two lateral shear interferograms using waves diffracted by original holograms. It is shown that the singly exposed hologram allows compensation for only optical inhomogeneities due to the substrate, while the doubly exposed hologram also excludes aberrations due to the recording system. The experimental results supporting the efficiency of the method as applied to imperfect substrates of holograms are presented.     

相移数字全息子图拼接研究

 将全息图拼接技术应用到相移数字全息术中,改善再现像的质量。用全息图强度相关原理进行全息图拼接,再通过标准四步算法对拼接后的全息图进行运算,恢复原始物光。作为对比,对没有拼接的全息图进行了同样的操作。计算机模拟实验证明该全息图拼接技术可明显提高再现像的质量。同时,通过对光学实验获得的全息图进行零填充和拼接对比研究证明,前者只能提高系统成像的细节显示能力,后者能够提高再现像的分辨率和视场大小。     

Measurement of properties of silver telluride thin films using holography

Holography is an interferometric method of recording the light waves diffracted by a subject illuminated with coherent light. Holographic interferometry (H.I.) is one of the most important applications of holography. It is concerned with the formation and interpretation of fringe patterns, which appears when a wave generated at some earlier time and stored in a hologram is later reconstructed by interfering with comparison wave. We report a technique, which uses double exposure holographic interferometry together with simple mathematical interpretation, which allow immediate finding of stress and thickness of thin film. We tested the same for different normalities of solutions. It was further noticed that the fringe spacing changes with solution concentration as well as time of deposition. The thin films are prepared using electrodeposition technique. It’s structural, morphological and optical study carried out by XRD, SEM, and UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer.     

Holographic properties of chalcogenide-metal photosensitive materials

A new type of photosensitive material using a chalcogenide-metal system can be used for recording holograms. This hologram is thin, recorded by amplitude and/or phase variations; a relief hologram is also available. It is shown that this material does not require development and fixation procedures and can be used for real-time holographic interferometry.     

Sandwich-speckle hologram: A combined method for local displacement analysis

Sandwich hologram interferometry and sandwich speckle photography tend to complement each other as displacement measuring methods; a sandwich hologram is best suited for out-of-plane movements, while speckle photography is used to determine in-plane components. The two techniques can be combined and both holographic and speckle photographic data can be stored on the same sandwich pair. Fringes caused by in-plane rigid body motion can be compensated for and local displacement evaluated.     

Studies on surface deformation of copper sulphide thin films by holographic interferometry technique

Holographic interferometry technique used to study the surface deformation of electrodeposited copper sulphide thin films on stainless steel substrate is here presented. It is concerned with the formation and interpretation of fringe patterns, which appears when a wave generated at some earlier time and stored in a hologram is later reconstructed by interfering with comparison wave. The proposed technique uses double exposure holographic interferometry (DEHI) together with simple mathematical relation, which allows immediate finding of stress, mass deposited and thickness of thin film. It must be further noted that, fringe spacing changes with time of deposition as well as solution concentration. The structural study (XRD) is carried out for the confirmation.     

Determination of vibration phase by stroboscopic sandwich holography

This paper shows the application of the sandwich technique to the vibration analysis performed by stroboscopic hologram interferometry. The image reconstructed from the sandwich hologram replaced in its original position gives the same fringes of classic stroboscopic double exposure holography.The reconstruction with sandwich tilting allows the determination of the sign of the vibration phase by observing the distortion of the fringe pattern.     

Nanoscale deformation measurement by using the hybrid method of gray-level and holographic interferometry

This study extends the use of holographic interferometry to measure the nanoscale out-of-plane displacement with high surface resolution. It is noted that if the deformation is less than half of the optical wavelength, it is hard to find an obvious fringe pattern. Under such a situation, in general, the phase shift method is used. However, it needs to take more than 3 images for phase shifting and phase reconstruction In this paper, a more simple hybrid method of gray-level and holographic interferometry is used to extract fringe skeletons, in which it just needs to take one or two images for the normal deformation measurement directly, even if there exists no obvious fringe pattern. The displacement field with high surface resolution can also be obtained. The proposed method yielded a theoretical precision of 0.15 nm for out-of-plane displacement with a monochromatic CCD camera of 10-bit gray scale (1024 gray scales) sensitivity and microscale surface resolution for millimeter scale object with 640×480 pixels image resolution by an He–Ne LASER (632.8 nm wavelength) light source. The gray-level method is proposed to calculate the non-obvious interferometry fringe by traditional holographic interferometry hologram, and the result showed that this method works for this purpose.     

Real-time and two-reference-beam hologram interferometry: effects of emulsion shrinkage

When transmission holograms are recorded on photographic materials, any change in the thickness of the photographic emulsion due to processing can produce a change in the spacing of the carrier fringes. We show that the resulting change in the angle at which the image is reconstructed when the hologram is illuminated with the original reference beam can give rise to significant errors in real-time and two-reference-beam hologram interferometry.     

Evaluation of holographic emulsion movement using phase difference amplification

A real-time holographic interferometry technique is typically used in the evaluation of aberrations caused by movement of the photographic emulsion. However, this technique is insufficiently accurate when an emulsion, with strain which has been released prior to exposure, is used. A proposed solution is based on the difference amplification method, which uses the higher diffraction orders of a non-linearly recorded hologram.     

Effect of aberrations in formation of holographic lateral shear interferograms under high measurement sensitivity

Analysis of the effect of aberrations of a system for recording and optical processing of holograms, as well as of inhomogeneities in hologram bases, on fringe distortion is performed for different methods of holographic shearing interferometry. Different dependences of the degree of fringe distortion in lateral shear interferograms on the measurement sensitivity are revealed. A method of excluding aberrations in formation of shear interferograms is proposed for the cases of single-and double-exposure holograms. Experimental results are reported.     

Interferometric testing of the spacing error of a plane diffraction grating

Two measuring methods of the plane diffraction grating spacing error are presented in this work. The first one resembles real- time holographic interferometry. The hologram is exposed when an object beam is the nth diffraction order, and is then illuminated by the -nth diffraction order wave. The second method makes use of double-exposure holographic interferometry. The first exposure is performed when the nth diffraction order is an object beam. During the second exposure the -nth diffraction order is an object beam. Both methods allow to measure the spacing error separately, not only from the grating surface error but also from the aberrations introduced by the other optical elements of the set-up.     

Real-time color holographic interferometry devoted to 2D unsteady wake flows

A new optical technique based on real time holographic interferometry in true colors has been implemented around the transonic wind tunnel of the ONERA-Lille center to analyze 2D unsteady wake flows. Tests realized in color interferometry, real time and double exposure, use simultaneously three wavelengths of a continuous waves laser (argon and krypton mixed) and holograms are recorded on silver-halide single-layer panchromatic Slavich PFG03c plates. The very principle of real-time true color holographic interferometry uses three primary wavelengths (red, green and blue) to record, under no-flow conditions, the interference among the three measurement beams and the three reference beams simultaneously on a single reference hologram. After the holographic plate is developed, it is placed on the test setup again in the position it occupied during exposure and the hologram is illuminated again by the three reference beams and three measurement beams. A flat, uniform color can then be observed behind the hologram. So a horizontal, vertical, or even circular fringe pattern can be formed and the achromatic central fringe can be made out very clearly. The single color is used to determine the path difference zero on the interferograms. The flow studied was the unsteady flow downstream of a cylinder placed crosswise in the test section. A sequence of hundred interferograms was recorded on the flow around the cylinder at Mach 0.37. The vortex formation and dissipation phases can be seen very clearly, along with the fringe beat to either side of the cylinder.     

Comparative accuracy of holographic interferometry and speckle photography for out-of-plane deformation measurement

Out-of-plane deformation of a surface can be measured either by recording a double exposure hologram, or by taking a double exposure speckle photograph with the camera deliberately de-focused. In the latter case the local surface tilt is measured, and the profile change subsequently obtained by integration. It is shown that errors can arise in speckle photography due to focusing the camera incorrectly, whereas the holographic method is not affected instrumentally. The sensitivity of the speckle method can approach that of holographic interferometry, but without requiring the same interferometric stability of recording apparatus.