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

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 389-400

  D'Acquisto, L ^a   Petrucci, G ^a   Zuccarello, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated birefringence measurements; Phase stepping technique; Quarter wave plate error

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTOELASTICITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

QUARTER WAVE PLATES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0036533684     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0143-8166(01)00109-9     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. A review of automated methods for the collection, analysis of photoelastic data
2. Analysis of doubly refracting materials with circularly and elliptically polarized light
3. Contribution to study of effect of elliptical polarization upon energy transmission
4. Distorsion of the photoelastic fringe pattern in an optical unbalanced polariscope
5. Automated photoelasticity in white light: Influence of quarter wave plates
6. The influence of quarter wave plate errors in phase stepping photoelasticity
7. A method for reducing the influence of quarter-wave plate errors in phase stepping photoelasticity
8. On image analysis for birefringence measurements in photoelasticity
9. Infuenza dell'errore delle lastre quarto d'onda nel metodo della trasformata di Fourier in fotoelasticità
10. Simulation of errors in automated photoelasticity