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58 Electronic or Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry<br />

The left image in Fig. 3.5 was calculated according to [Kuj89] from a data set with α=120°, which<br />

reduced σ ∆ϕ = 62.6° as obtained from raw correlation fringes (image not shown) to σ ∆ϕ = 24.0°. To <strong>the</strong><br />

right, <strong>the</strong> method <strong>of</strong> [Moo94] was applied to <strong>the</strong> previous data set with α=90° that led to <strong>the</strong> results in Fig.<br />

3.4, <strong>and</strong> σ ∆ϕ dropped to 27.2°. In both cases, <strong>the</strong> accuracy is more than doubled <strong>and</strong> most <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> initial<br />

spatial resolution is maintained. The price for this is increased computational effort: a reference phase<br />

map must be generated first, whose lower resolution may influence <strong>the</strong> choices for ϕ O somewhat, <strong>and</strong> one<br />

out <strong>of</strong> four phase values must be selected for every pixel. Since generally no ideal reference image will be<br />

available, <strong>the</strong> errors in it will also influence <strong>the</strong> choice <strong>of</strong> ϕ O <strong>and</strong> propagate into ∆ϕ. Finally, <strong>the</strong> histogram<br />

distortion can in nei<strong>the</strong>r case be removed.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r method that uses I {0,1},i <strong>and</strong> I {0,1},f with α=90° has been proposed in [Own88]; while it is<br />

obviously not suitable for highly dynamic phenomena, it does find ∆ϕ unambiguously. The result <strong>of</strong> this<br />

calculation can be seen in Fig. 3.6. Both <strong>the</strong> phase map (σ ∆ϕ = 53.2°) <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> histogram <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> phase<br />

distribution show that this method is ra<strong>the</strong>r susceptible to noise; <strong>the</strong>refore it has been used in [Own88,<br />

Own91b] with smoothing <strong>the</strong> sine <strong>and</strong> cosine terms before calculating ∆ϕ. The argument <strong>of</strong> calculation<br />

speed that led to <strong>the</strong> development <strong>of</strong> this method is not important anymore; but interestingly, <strong>the</strong> very<br />

same scheme has meanwhile been applied in temporal phase unwrapping, again for reasons <strong>of</strong>, inter alia,<br />

speed [vBru98, vBru99].<br />

Fig. 3.6: Result <strong>of</strong> calculating ∆ϕ with <strong>the</strong> method <strong>of</strong> [Own88].<br />

As <strong>the</strong>se considerations have shown, <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> ESPI correlation fringes for phase-shifting purposes is<br />

problematic when we are considering raw, i.e. unfiltered, phase data. This is because one uses only one set<br />

<strong>of</strong> phase-shifted data to determine ∆ϕ . Never<strong>the</strong>less, this approach may sometimes be a good way to<br />

perform phase measurements when dynamic objects are studied.<br />

3.2.1.2 Difference-<strong>of</strong>-phases method<br />

Provided it is possible to record two sets <strong>of</strong> phase-shifted interferograms I n,i <strong>and</strong> I n,f for both object states,<br />

one can calculate two speckle phase maps by, e.g., (3.16):

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