Appl Opt. 2016 Aug 10;55(23):6331-5. doi: 10.1364/AO.55.006331.
Applied optics
Kenichi Hibino, Yangjin Kim
PMID: 27534475 DOI: 10.1364/AO.55.006331
In phase-shifting interferometry, phase modulation nonlinearity causes both spatially uniform and nonuniform errors in the measured phase. Conventional linear-detuning error-compensating algorithms only eliminate the spatially variable error component. The uniform error is proportional to the inertial momentum of the data-sampling weight of a phase-shifting algorithm. This paper proposes a design approach to cancel the momentum by using characteristic polynomials in the Z-transform space and shows that an arbitrary M-frame algorithm can be modified to a new (M+2)-frame algorithm that acquires new symmetry to eliminate the uniform error.