Obtaining the phase of an interferogram by use of an evolution strategy: part I

Appl Opt. 2002 Jun 10;41(17):3448-52. doi: 10.1364/ao.41.003448.

Abstract

We present a method for obtaining the phase of a noisy simulated interferogram. We find the wave-front aberrations by transforming the problem of fitting a polynomial into an optimization problem, which is then solved using an evolutionary algorithm. Our experimental results show that our method yields a more accurate solution than other methods commonly used to solve this problem.