Sinusoidal least-squares fitting for temporal fringe pattern analysis

Author: Villa J.   Gómez-Pedrero J. A.   Quiroga J. A.  

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

ISSN: 1362-3044

Source: Journal of Modern Optics, Vol.49, Iss.13, 2002-11, pp. : 2257-2266

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Abstract

A sinusoidal least-squares fitting algorithm (SLSF) is applied to temporal evaluation of fringe patterns. The least-squares fitting of a sine function directly with the irradiance fluctuations due to a linear sensitivity variation of the optical set-up avoids the problems inherent to Fourier analysis. Experiments show that the proposed method has a better noise immunity than the temporal Fourier method. An application of this technique to Deflectometry is also presented.