Abstract

An algorithm is proposed for extraction of the unknown phase shift steps and correction of the phase shift error in partially coherent illuminated phase-shifting digital holography. The mean contrast of noise (MCN) of the reconstructed amplitude image is developed to evaluate the noise level resulting from phase shift error. Actual phase shift steps are first extracted by minimizing the MCN. Then the extracted actual phase shift steps are used to retrieve the original object wave without phase shift error. The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulations, and then implemented in partially coherent illuminated phase-shifting digital holography where a spatial light modulator with unknown phase modulation characteristic is used as the phase shifter. The results demonstrated that the actual phase shift steps can be extracted and the phase shift error is corrected effectively.

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