Experimental demonstrations of the digital correction of complex wave errors caused by arbitrary phase-shift errors in phase-shifting interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1193-1202

  Cai, Lu Zhong ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Wang, Yu Rong ^a   Meng, Xiang Feng ^a   He, Ming Zhao ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE SHIFT;

PHASE UNWRAPPING; PHASE-SHIFT ERRORS; WALL-LIKE STRUCTURES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 33645531612     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001193     Document Type: Article

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