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Improved Fourier-transform profilometry

Journal Article · · Applied Optics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.46.000664· OSTI ID:20929601

An improved optical geometry of the projected-fringe profilometry technique, in which the exit pupil of the projecting lens and the entrance pupil of the imaging lens are neither at the same height above the reference plane nor coplanar, is discussed and used in Fourier-transform profilometry. Furthermore, an improved fringe-pattern description and phase-height mapping formula based on the improved geometrical generalization is deduced. Employing the new optical geometry, it is easier for us to obtain the full-field fringe by moving either the projector or the imaging device. Therefore the new method offers a flexible way to obtain reliable height distribution of a measured object.

OSTI ID:
20929601
Journal Information:
Applied Optics, Journal Name: Applied Optics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 46; ISSN 0003-6935; ISSN APOPAI
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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