A simplified system for digital speckle interferometry

Abstract A video speckle interferometer has been demonstrated which uses a spherical surface of small radius at the centre of the camera aperture to simplify the alignment of the reference beam. In combination with a fast microcomputer, this gives a compact and relatively inexpensive system which is able to display phase-stepped interferograms of good quality with a repetition rate approaching one second. The software for phase stepping and unwrapping has novel features and can be applied to other types of interferometer.

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