Editor's Picks

Nondestructive Testing

The editors of Applied Optics have selected articles from a variety of topic areas that reflect the progression of each area over Applied Optics' history.

These collections and the articles within them are not meant to be comprehensive but authoritative, showing that significant contributions were made and continue to be made in these areas.

For this collection, we are focusing on nondestructive testing and have provided a selection of 20 articles for your reading pleasure.

Moiré Topography Time-Lapse Interferometry and Contouring Using Television Systems Digital Wavefront Measuring Interferometer for Testing Optical Surfaces and Lenses Image-shearing camera for direct measurement of surface strains Digital wave-front measuring interferometry: some systematic error sources Fourier transform profilometry for the automatic measurement of 3-D object shapes Automated phase-measuring profilometry of 3-D diffuse objects Phase-shifting speckle interferometry Electrooptic holography and its application to hologram interferometry Digital phase-shifting interferometry: a simple error-compensating phase calculation algorithm New measurement system for fault location in optical waveguide devices based on an interferometric technique Three-dimensional sensing of rough surfaces by coherence radar Temporal phase-unwrapping algorithm for automated interferogram analysis Fourier-transform speckle profilometry: three-dimensional shape measurements of diffuse objects with large height steps and/or spatially isolated surfaces Extended averaging technique for derivation of error-compensating algorithms in phase-shifting interferometry Simultaneous three-dimensional dynamic deformation measurements with pulsed digital holography Improved Vertical-Scanning Interferometry Studies of Digital Microscopic Holography with Applications to Microstructure Testing Common-Path Interferometer for Frequency-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Terahertz imaging: applications and perspectives