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3.4 <strong>Spatial</strong> phase shifting 83<br />

crossing speckle "boundaries". The ideal case is sketched in Fig. 3.26 for d s =3 d p . Depending on <strong>the</strong><br />

orientation <strong>and</strong> density <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> carrier fringe pattern, various phase-extraction formulae can be applied.<br />

I 0 I 1 I 2<br />

I 0 I 1 I 2<br />

Fig. 3.26: Acquisition <strong>of</strong> three intensity samples I 0 , I 1 , I 2 for SPS. Small squares: sensor pixels, irregular outlines:<br />

speckles. Direction <strong>and</strong> spacing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> carrier fringes are indicated by <strong>the</strong> vertical black bars; left:<br />

α=90°/d p , right: α=120°/d p .<br />

The speckles, <strong>and</strong> also <strong>the</strong> sampling pixel cluster, should be as small as possible for <strong>the</strong> sake <strong>of</strong> spatial<br />

resolution; on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>, a somewhat larger pixel cluster can lead to more reliable phase<br />

measurements even when <strong>the</strong> speckle size is not increased. We will consider this point in detail in Chapter<br />

6.2.2.<br />

In any case, <strong>the</strong> aperture must be smaller than in TPS; a first guess for <strong>the</strong> minimal speckle size would be<br />

d s =3 d p , because in (3.12), we need n3. So small an aperture entails some drawbacks: first, significantly<br />

less object light is available; <strong>and</strong> second, ∆x can usually not be chosen freely, since for R to reach <strong>the</strong><br />

sensor, ∆x must not exceed D/2 (cf. Fig. 3.21). The latter problem can be solved with customised imaging<br />

optics: a narrow slit beside <strong>the</strong> diaphragm hole, allowing <strong>the</strong> focus <strong>of</strong> R to pass, will broaden <strong>the</strong> possible<br />

range <strong>of</strong> ∆x (cf. Fig. Fig. 5.1). Finally, when <strong>the</strong> test surface undergoes a tilt, <strong>the</strong> decorrelation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

speckle field proceeds faster with narrow than with wide apertures: that portion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> speckle field which<br />

is collected by <strong>the</strong> aperture is being panned "out <strong>of</strong> view" sooner when D is small.<br />

Once <strong>the</strong>se problems are overcome, it becomes possible to study dynamic phenomena; using<br />

(double-)pulsed illumination, even very rapid transients can be frozen [Ped93, Ped94, Sched97, Ped97c,<br />

Pet98, Pet99]. Moreover, <strong>the</strong> decrease in spatial resolution is in practice more than <strong>of</strong>fset by <strong>the</strong> low data<br />

storage requirements, since mostly <strong>the</strong> sawtooth images are smoo<strong>the</strong>d anyway during data processing.<br />

3.4.2 Evaluation <strong>of</strong> SPS interferograms<br />

The intensity samples for <strong>the</strong> phase calculation are picked from an interferogram in analogy to (3.12)<br />

which we rewrite as a spatial version (restricting ourselves to α=α(x), i.e. <strong>the</strong> phase changes from column<br />

to column <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> image):<br />

In ( xk + n , y, t) = Ib ( xk + n , y) + M I ( xk + n , y) ⋅ cos( ϕO ( xk + n , y, t) + α n ( xk + n , y))<br />

, (3.68)<br />

this is, to find <strong>the</strong> phase at a pixel in column k <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> image, some neighbouring pixels are needed to<br />

provide <strong>the</strong> phase-shifted interference data. The equation system expressed by (3.68) <strong>the</strong>n imposes <strong>the</strong>

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