Sensitivity enhancement of far-infrared Fizeau interferometry by digital image processing

Kaushal Verma; Bongtae Han

doi:10.1117/1.1391436

1 September 2001 Sensitivity enhancement of far-infrared Fizeau interferometry by digital image processing

Kaushal Verma, Bongtae Han

Optical Engineering, Vol. 40, Issue 9, (September 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1391436

The applicability of digital image-processing techniques is studied to enhance the displacement resolution of far-IR Fizeau interferometry (FIFI). Two image-processing techniques are considered-the optical/digital fringe multiplication (O/DFM) method and the phasestepping method. The effect of multiple reflections on the fractional fringe order is analyzed mathematically and the results are verified by experimental data. The results indicate that the O/DFM method is fully compatible with the complex asymmetric intensity distribution produced by FIFI, while the phase-stepping method yields significant errors in fractional fringe orders when the surface reflectivity is high. The errors are quantified to provide an application guideline for the phase-stepping method.

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Kaushal Verma and Bongtae Han "Sensitivity enhancement of far-infrared Fizeau interferometry by digital image processing," Optical Engineering 40(9), (1 September 2001). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.1391436

Published: 1 September 2001

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