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94 Electronic or Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry<br />

go back to a simple representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> formula, which, as we have seen, will not affect its performance.<br />

For <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> d s =3 d p , it was indeed found that <strong>the</strong> best ν c,geom for, say, (3.19) was α75°/sample, <strong>and</strong><br />

for, e.g., (3.17), <strong>the</strong> minimal error occurred around α100°/sample. But <strong>the</strong> difference in performance<br />

was only 2-3%; <strong>and</strong> since also <strong>the</strong>se values may change with <strong>the</strong> sensor <strong>and</strong> electronics used, we do not<br />

fur<strong>the</strong>r pursue this detail.<br />

3.4.6 Distorted phase distributions due to miscalibrated phase shift<br />

None <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> formulae investigated, including <strong>the</strong> error-compensating ones, will perfectly suppress <strong>the</strong><br />

oscillating phase errors sketched in Fig. 3.14. This has important consequences for <strong>the</strong> statistics <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

measured phases. In <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> a systematic phase-shift deviation, <strong>the</strong> uniform distribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

speckle phases (cf. (2.6)) will be modified by <strong>the</strong> faulty measurements, as pointed out in [Kad91]. The<br />

arrows in Fig. 3.14 indicate <strong>the</strong> direction to which <strong>the</strong> true ϕ O values are biased by measuring ϕ O +δϕ O<br />

under excessive phase shift: phase readings <strong>of</strong> 0

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