Surface profiling of a transparent object by use of phase-shifting Talbot interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2541-2545

  Thakur, Madhuri ^a   Tay, Cho Jui ^a   Quan, Chenggen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT;

ABERRATION MEASUREMENTS; INTERFERENCE EQUATIONS; OPTICAL AXIS; TALBOT INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 19944396794     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002541     Document Type: Article

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