Abstract
We develop a laser-diode phase-shifting interferometer that can capture frame-rate phase-shifted interferograms on a video tape with a high capacity for their storage. The number of the video frame is simultaneously recorded on an audio track of the video tape. In a four- step manner, the injection-current variation of the laser diode is synchro- nized with the field pulse of a CCD camera to producep/2-step phase shifts at a frame rate of 1/30 s. An intensity distribution of the interfero- gram on any frame can be determined through a video tape with a frame memory using the recorded frame number. The four successive phase- shifted interferograms are used to calculate a distribution of frozen phase by a phase-extraction algorithm. The phase error due to the frame-by- frame intensity repeatability is theoretically analyzed. © 1999 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. (S0091-3286(99)01812-7)
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