Phase measurement profilometry(PMP) uses a digital projector and a camera for 3D shape measurement.However,the nonlinear response of the measurement system causes the captured perfect sinusoidal fringe patterns to become non-sinusoidal waveforms,which results in phase and measurement errors.We perform a theoretical analysis of the phase error resulting from non-sinusoidal fringe patterns.Based on a derived phase-error expression,the empirical mode decomposition(EMD) method is introduced to restrain nonlinear phase error and improve the precision in evaluating the phase distribution.A computer simulation and experimental results prove that the proposed method can eliminate possible phase-error in PMP.
Subaperture stitching （SAS） provides us with an attractive way of extending the effective aperture and dynamic range of phase measuring interferometers. Accuracy of stitching algorithm becomes the key factor in the SAS technology. In this paper, the basic principle of SAS was introduced and four modes of SAS were discussed. The stitching experiments were done through the SSI-300 workstation designed and developed indepen- dently. There were several comparisons between the four different stitching methods and the measurement of full aperture. The results suggest that the global error averaging mode with reference of subaperture near optic axis is of high precision.
