Least-squares algorithm for phase-stepping interferometry with an unknown relative step

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 4854-4859

  Guo, Hongwei ^a   Chen, Mingyi ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LEAST-SQARE ALGORITHMS; LINEAR PREDICTION; PHASE-STEPPING INTERFEROMETRY; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 24344477579     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004854     Document Type: Article

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