Algorithm immune to tilt phase-shifting error for phase-shifting interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3894-3898

  Chen, Mingyi ^a,b   Guo, Hongwei ^a,b   Wei, Chunlong ^a,c  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Laboratory of Applied Optics and Metrology   (China)

^c Department of Communication Engineering ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

PHASE-SHIFTING INTERFEROMETERS;

PHASE SHIFT;

EID: 0000310463     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003894     Document Type: Article

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