Abstract

A method for calculating the difference between two arbitrary spatial phase distributions reconstructed from digital holograms is presented. The method is promising for application in double-exposure digital holographic interferometry, especially for the evaluation of phase variations in heavily noised or speckle-structure-modulated digital holograms, because it does not use the phase unwrapping procedure for each reconstructed spatial phase distribution. Instead, by analogy with classical double-exposure holographic interferometry, an interference pattern formed by two reconstructed object waves is calculated first. The interferogram thus obtained is then processed as a digital hologram by the same method that was used for reconstruction of physically recorded holograms. The advantages of the proposed method are demonstrated by both by the numerical computation of the difference of the phase distributions of speckle-structure-modulated wavefronts and the experimental observation of the laser-induced temperature gradients in an aqueous solution of a photosensitizer.

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