Abstract
Interferometry is the preferred measurement method for the contact spacing of the head-tape interface, due to its ease of use and high accuracy. Full-field techniques provide spacing data at all points in the field of view as opposed to a single measurement point. Dynamic interferometric measurement necessitates the use of a strobed illumination source, and thus prohibits the alteration of the fringe field to resolve the ill-constrained nature of the analysis problem. In addition, the head-tape contact problem is further complicated by the low phase gradient in the region of head-tape contact, which is often large in comparison to the field of view. In this paper two algorithms are compared which do not require alteration of the fringe field and therefore can easily be applied to the dynamic head-tape interface. The first technique is a two-dimensional implementation of a biquadratic fit to the fringe extremes, while the second is a pseudo-spatial heterodyne technique using the two-dimensional Fourier transform. Theoretical implementation and results are presented.
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