Time-average hologram interferometry of periodic,non-cosinusoidal vibrations

In the present paper, the method of time-average hologram interferometry has been applied to study periodic, non-cosinusoidal vibrations represented by a Jacobian elliptic function. For such vibrations the characteristic fringe function has been evaluated by making use of an equation derived from considerations of the effect of motion on coherence. Techniques of holographic addition and subtraction and extended pulse stroboscopic holography have been applied to analyze these vibrations in detail. Graphical representation of the fringe irradiance distributions in the reconstructed image is given in all the cases.