Evaluation of spectral phase in spectrally resolved white-light interferometry: Comparative study of single-frame techniques

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1125-1130

  Debnath, Sanjit K ^a   Kothiyal, Mahendra P ^b   Kim, Seung Woo ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Hilbert transform; Phase shifting interferometry; Spectral interferogram analysis; Wavelet transform; White light interferometry; Windowed Fourier transform

Indexed keywords

HILBERT TRANSFORM; PHASE-SHIFTING INTERFEROMETRY; SPECTRAL INTERFEROGRAM ANALYSIS; WHITE-LIGHT INTERFEROMETRY; WINDOWED FOURIER TRANSFORM;

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHASE SHIFT; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

EID: 68849088207     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2009.06.014     Document Type: Article

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