A phase shifting device (PZT) which is commonly applied in interferometry for phase measurement, unfortunately, has a nonlinear response to the applied voltage. In certain configurations such as, holographic moiré, where incorporation of two PZTs yields multiple phase information regarding the two orthogonal displacement components, the nonlinear response of the two PZTs yields highly erroneous result. In this context, we present for the first time a method for compensating multiple nonlinearities in the PZTs. Experimental results show the feasibility of the proposed method. The statistical performance of this method is also verified by comparing with the Cramér-Rao lower bound.

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3. S. M. Kay, "Modern spectral estimation: theory and application," Prentice Hall, Englewood cliffs, New Jersey.
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Boorstyn, R. R.
Raphael, B.
Rastogi, P. K.
Rife, D. C.
Smith, I. F. C.

Appl. Math. Comput.

• B. Raphael, and I. F. C. Smith, "A direct stochastic algorithm for global search," Appl. Math. Comput. 146,729-758 (2003). [CrossRef]

Appl. Opt.

• P. K. Rastogi, "Phase shifting applied to four-wave holographic interferometers," Appl. Opt. 31,1680-1681 (1992). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• P. K. Rastogi, "Phase-shifting holographic moir´e: Phase-shifter error-insensitive algorithms for the extraction of the difference and sum of phases in holographic moir´e," Appl. Opt. 32,3669-3675 (1993). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

• D. C. Rife, and R. R. Boorstyn, "Single-tone parameter estimation from discrete-time observations," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,  IT-20,591-598 (1974). [CrossRef]

Other

• S. M. Kay, "Modern spectral estimation: theory and application," Prentice Hall, Englewood cliffs, New Jersey.

2003, Raphael, Appl. Math. Comput.
1993, Rastogi, Appl. Opt.
1992, Rastogi, Appl. Opt.
1974, Rife, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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