Optical metrology by phase-based methods reaches high accuracy and robustness because the information of interest is encoded as a phase distribution rather than intensity. Interferometry and fringe-projection profilometry are two examples of this approach. However, in some applications, the well-established phase demodulation algorithms fail or are not applicable. For example,

• when the phase shift is nonlinear and unknown,
• when the background and modulation lights are time-varying,
• when the spectral content of the background light overlaps with the spectrum of interest,
• etc.

The phase demodulation algorithms developed in our research group covers four main topics: intensity normalization, phase-shifting, Fourier fringe analysis, and phase-unwrapping. The following list summarizes some results of our research in this project.

• A full scheme for phase evaluation.
• Unbiased envelope estimation of noisy sinusoidal signals.
• Intensity normalization.
• Generalized phase-shifting for inhomogeneous phase shifts.
• Fourier fringe-normalized analysis.
• Phase-unwrapping.

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