Phase-shifting measurement and its error estimation method were studied according to the holographic principle.A function of synchronous superposition of object complex amplitude reconstructed from N-step phase-shifti...Phase-shifting measurement and its error estimation method were studied according to the holographic principle.A function of synchronous superposition of object complex amplitude reconstructed from N-step phase-shifting through one integral period(N-step phase-shifting function for short)was proposed.In N-step phase-shifting measurement,the interferograms are seen as a series of in-line holo-grams and the reference beam is an ideal parallel-plane wave.So the N-step phase-shifting function can be obtained by multiplying the interferogram by the original reference wave.In ideal conditions,the proposed method is a kind of synchro-nous superposition algorithm in which the complex ampli-tude is separated,measured and superposed.When error exists in measurement,the result of the N-step phase-shifting function is the optimal expected value of the least-squares fitting method.In the above method,the N+1-step phase-shifting function can be obtained from the N-step phase-shifting function.It shows that the N-step phase-shifting function can be separated into two parts:the ideal N-step phase-shifting function and its errors.The phase-shifting errors in N-steps phase-shifting phase measurement can be treated the same as the relative errors of amplitude and intensity under the understanding of the N+1-step phase-shifting function.The difficulties of the error estimation in phase-shifting phase measurement were restricted by this error esti-mation method.Meanwhile,the maximum error estimation method of phase-shifting phase measurement and its formula were proposed.展开更多
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文摘Phase-shifting measurement and its error estimation method were studied according to the holographic principle.A function of synchronous superposition of object complex amplitude reconstructed from N-step phase-shifting through one integral period(N-step phase-shifting function for short)was proposed.In N-step phase-shifting measurement,the interferograms are seen as a series of in-line holo-grams and the reference beam is an ideal parallel-plane wave.So the N-step phase-shifting function can be obtained by multiplying the interferogram by the original reference wave.In ideal conditions,the proposed method is a kind of synchro-nous superposition algorithm in which the complex ampli-tude is separated,measured and superposed.When error exists in measurement,the result of the N-step phase-shifting function is the optimal expected value of the least-squares fitting method.In the above method,the N+1-step phase-shifting function can be obtained from the N-step phase-shifting function.It shows that the N-step phase-shifting function can be separated into two parts:the ideal N-step phase-shifting function and its errors.The phase-shifting errors in N-steps phase-shifting phase measurement can be treated the same as the relative errors of amplitude and intensity under the understanding of the N+1-step phase-shifting function.The difficulties of the error estimation in phase-shifting phase measurement were restricted by this error esti-mation method.Meanwhile,the maximum error estimation method of phase-shifting phase measurement and its formula were proposed.
