Study on a Rotary Self-Check Phase Unwrapping Algorithm

Abstract

This article presented a rotary self-check phase unwrapping algorithm. The algorithm was mainly to process phase unwrapping for the phase main value got from Interferometer in accurately measuring object surface topography, and then accurately restored the object surface topography. The object surface topography measured by Interferometer generally tended to be smooth, the phase unwrapping was not difficult without noise interference. The algorithm processed phase unwrapping by the path of gradually rotational diffusion from the middle to the around in the wrapped phase map, at the same time the check for the error was carried out. It used the median filter technology to process the phase unwrapping error, and avoided the transmission of phase unwrapping error, had a greater inhibitory effect on the noises. This method did not identify the residuals, had small amount of operations, and Unwrapping velocity was several times faster than the fastest traditional branch blocking algorithm.