White light phase shifting interferometry and color fringe analysis for the detection of contaminants in water

Vishesh Dubey; Veena Singh; Azeem Ahmad; Gyanendra Singh; Dalip Singh Mehta

doi:10.1117/12.2212405

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9 March 2016 White light phase shifting interferometry and color fringe analysis for the detection of contaminants in water

Vishesh Dubey, Veena Singh, Azeem Ahmad, Gyanendra Singh, Dalip Singh Mehta

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Proceedings Volume 9718, Quantitative Phase Imaging II; 97181F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212405
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report white light phase shifting interferometry in conjunction with color fringe analysis for the detection of contaminants in water such as Escherichia coli (E.coli), Campylobacter coli and Bacillus cereus. The experimental setup is based on a common path interferometer using Mirau interferometric objective lens. White light interferograms are recorded using a 3-chip color CCD camera based on prism technology. The 3-chip color camera have lesser color cross talk and better spatial resolution in comparison to single chip CCD camera. A piezo-electric transducer (PZT) phase shifter is fixed with the Mirau objective and they are attached with a conventional microscope. Five phase shifted white light interferograms are recorded by the 3-chip color CCD camera and each phase shifted interferogram is decomposed into the red, green and blue constituent colors, thus making three sets of five phase shifted intererograms for three different colors from a single set of white light interferogram. This makes the system less time consuming and have lesser effect due to surrounding environment. Initially 3D phase maps of the bacteria are reconstructed for red, green and blue wavelengths from these interferograms using MATLAB, from these phase maps we determines the refractive index (RI) of the bacteria. Experimental results of 3D shape measurement and RI at multiple wavelengths will be presented. These results might find applications for detection of contaminants in water without using any chemical processing and fluorescent dyes.

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Vishesh Dubey, Veena Singh, Azeem Ahmad, Gyanendra Singh, and Dalip Singh Mehta "White light phase shifting interferometry and color fringe analysis for the detection of contaminants in water", Proc. SPIE 9718, Quantitative Phase Imaging II, 97181F (9 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2212405

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