Linear squares modal estimation of wrapped phases: application to phase unwrapping

Justo Arines; Jorge Ares

doi:10.1117/12.524448

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19 November 2003 Linear squares modal estimation of wrapped phases: application to phase unwrapping

Justo Arines; Jorge Ares

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Proceedings Volume 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524448
Event: 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, 2002, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Phase unwrapping continues to be an important step in those techniques that obtain the phase from Fourier-transforms; Fringe pattern analysis, Speckle Interferometry, and Phase Recovery among others. In this Letter we propose a fast two-dimensional phase unwrapping algorithm which consists of a reconstruction of the wrapped phase by modal least-squares estimation. This algorithm has been developed to work with continuous phases that can be developed as a linear combination of a set of orthogonal polynomials. Theoretical description of the method and simulations are presented.

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Justo Arines and Jorge Ares "Linear squares modal estimation of wrapped phases: application to phase unwrapping", Proc. SPIE 4829, 19th Congress of the International Commission for Optics: Optics for the Quality of Life, (19 November 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.524448

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