A novel fiber-optic interferometer fringe projector with the sinusoidal phase-modulating method is presented. The system utilizes the integrating bucket method to detect the desired phase or the displacement and a CMOS image sensor to detect four frames obtained by integration of the time-varying intensity in an interference image during the four quarters of the modulation period. Since this technique with the method modulating the injection current of the piezoelectric transducer (PZT), measurement accuracy is not affected by an intensity modulation that usually appears in the current modulation. The system also utilizes the Fresnel reflection signal to adjust the phase-modulation coefficient z to eliminate the disturbance of initial phase ψ0 . The experimental results for surface profiles of a convex hull show that the sinusoidal phase modulating interferometer proposed here confirms its applicability to practical application.

Date Published: 10 October 2013
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 8916, Sixth International Symposium on Precision Mechanical Measurements, 89160V (10 October 2013); doi: 10.1117/12.2035862

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8916:
Sixth International Symposium on Precision Mechanical Measurements
Shenghua Ye; Yetai Fei, Editor(s)