Photorefractive Holography
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Transcript Photorefractive Holography
Surface Contouring by phase-shifting real-time
holography using photorefractive sillenite crystals
M.R.R. Gesualdi ,D.Soga , M.Muramatsu
Optics and Laser Technology
Vol 39, pg 98-104 (2007)
Journal Club : 9/10/2007
Presenter : Ashwin Kumar
Advisors: Prof. Todd Murray
Prof. Kamil Ekinci
Contents
Introduction to Holography
Photorefractive Holography
Photorefractive Effect
Two-wave mixing
Four-Wave Mixing
Surface Contouring
Rotation Source Method
Phase shifting Technique
Four-Frame Technique
Cellular –Automata Technique
Experimental Setup
Experimental Results
Conclusions
Holography
Holography is technique by which a wavefront can be recorded and reconstructed at a later
point in the absence of original wavefront
Holographic interferometry : Extension of interferometric technique in which atleast one of
the waves which interfere is reconstruced by a hologram
Advantages : Storing a wavefront for reconstruction at later time
Wavefronts separated in time or space can be compared
Changes in shape of objects with rough surfaces can be studied
Photorefractive Holography
Photorefractive Materials : Changes in index of refraction in accordance with variation in exposed light
Photorefractive
Effect : Two beams interfere within the crystal to form a sinusoidal intensity pattern
Generation of free carriers : Bright region of the intensity pattern
Carriers diffuse and/or drift leaving fixed charges behind
Carriers are trapped in the dark regions due to introduction of point defects
Results in the formation of a nonuniform charge distribution – Space charge field (SCF)
SCF modulates the refractive index of the crystal (electro-optic effect)
Spatially nonuniform intensity pattern
Crystal
Signal Beam
Reference Beam
Charge distribution
Refractive Index distribution
Space – Charge Field
Absorption
Diffusion
Trapping
Spatial intensity gradients Magnitude of photorefractive grating
Overall intensity –
Speed of formation of grating
Photorefractive Holography
Holography involves recording and reconstruction of optical waves (Two- Wave Mixing)
PRC – Dynamic hologram to record the information of
optical (signal) beam
Plane reference beam can be used to reconstruct the signal
Signal Beam
Reference Beam
Transmitted
Reference Beam
Reference Beam
Reconstructed Signal
Beam
Conjugate Signal Beam
Recording and Reconstruction are done simultaneously
Reference beam is diffracted into the path of the transmitted signal beam
Reference beam matches with the wavefront of the signal beam
Writing/Reading Process is reversible
No chemical processing is required
Short response time and lower noise levels in interferograms
Photorefractive Holography
Four – Wave Mixing Technique
Two strong pump beams are used to produce a phase conjugate
of a weaker probe beam
Four-wave mixing is useful in phase and adaptive amplitude correction and
noise filtering
Reconstruction Beam / Second Pump Beam
Signal Beam
Phase Conjugate
of the Signal Beam
Reference Beam
Surface Contouring
Shape determination of surfaces – Real-time holographic interferometry
Advantages : Non-contact technique to analyze surfaces
Provide good reliability, high accuracy and qualitative analysis through visual
inspection
Holographic contouring methods : Rotation source method (Change in angle of illumination)
Hologram of the object is first created
The angle of illumination beam is slightly changed and a second hologram is superposed on the first
Two sets of light waves reach the observer , Reconstructed wave (Object wave before angle tilt) and
wave from the object’s present state
Two wave amplitudes add at points where OPD is zero or n and cancel at other points in between.
A Reconstructed image covered with a pattern of interference fringes are observed
Contour map of the surface of the object
Surface Contouring by Rotation- Source Method
Measurements of surface shape
Difference between the phases before and after of the object illumination beam
2D Analysis : Object Phase before mirror tilt
b (i, j , k )
2
[ I sin h(i, j ) cos ]
2D Analysis : Object Phase after mirror tilt
a (i, j , k )
2
[ I sin( ) h(i, j ) cos( )]
Phase Map and height of the object
4
(i, j , k )
[sin( / 2)[I cos( / 2) h(i, j ) sin( / 2)]]
[ I cos( / 2) (i, j , k ) / 4 [sin( / 2)]]
h(i, j )
sin( / 2)
Sensitivity of this method is given by
h(i, j )
2 sin( / 2) sin( / 2)
sin
Tilt angle is sufficiently small
Phase-Shifting Technique
Spatial phase measurement technique
Interferogram phase is calculated using holographic interferogram
intensities
Fringe pattern is complex due to irregularities and intricate shape
of the object
Four- Frame technique is used to determine the phase
The PZT is moved over a distance of /8 inducing a phase shift of /2 to the reference beam
Four interference patterns are acquired after stepwise phase shifts of the reference beam
Phase-Shifting Interferometer
Interferogram obtained
from a plane Mirror
Interferogram
obtained
from a slightly
concave
And irregular surface
Four Frame Technique
To determine the phase at each point (i,j), the intensity at each
point (i,j) is given by
I n (i, j ) I o (i, j ) cos[ (i, j )
(n 1)
], n 1,2,3,4
2
I (i, j ) I 2 (i, j )
(i, j ) arctan[ 4
]
I1 (i, j ) I 3 (i, j )
2D graphic is obtained by representing
each phase value by a gray shade intensity
Black corresponding to - and white to
8 bit imaging system: 256 different gray intensities
Phase wrapping occurs
Noise is filtered using anisotropic sin/cos filter
Phase unwrapping : Cellular-automata technique
Phase-Unwrapping Problem
Relation between wrapped and unwrapped phase
(i, j ) (i, j ) 2k (i, j )
- unwrapped phase
- wrapped phase
k – wrap count integer field
Phase unwrapping problem consists of singling out the correct k value
Reconstruction of unwrapped phase is obtained by direct integration
in absence of noise and correctly sampled data
In presence of noise or under sampling, wrapped phase is rotational in nature
Result of the integration depends on the path followed
Presence of rotational components (residues and dipoles)
make the solution non-unique
Removal of noise is important in the phase unwrapping problem
Cellular – Automata Technique
By repeating these steps, phase progressively
unwrapped
Each cycle removes one fringe as the local
iteration moves the discontinuities to the
boundary of the phase field
Removed slowly owing to global iteration
Surface Contouring by RTHI
Experimental Setup
Experimental Results
All objects were painted with retro-reflector ink to increase the
intensity of the scattered laser beam
Angle between the recording beams was 45 degs
Recording time : 30 secs
= 0.36 radians
Four Frame Technique ( = 0,/2, ,3 /2)
Intensity ratio of Reference: Object Beam = 6.0
Experimental Results
Specimen : Bulb of length 30.0 mm and 10.0 mm diameter
Change in incidence angle = 0.0001 rad
Surface contouring : difference between the max. and min.
height is 5.0 mm
Experimental Results
Specimen : Chess of length 30.0 mm and 10.0 mm diameter
Change in incidence angle = 0.0002 rad
Surface contouring : difference between the max. and min.
height is 6.0 mm
Experimental Results
Specimen : Plug of height 10.0 mm and 20.0 mm diameter
Change in incidence angle = 0.00006 rad
Surface contouring :Internal border of the piece
Conclusion
Phase shifting (RTHI) presents new possibilities of surface topograph
BSO crystal in diffusive regimen with configuration exhibiting diffraction
anisotropy
Height at each point of surface is proportional to the difference of phases
due to tilt of the object illuminating beam
Results of good quality were obtained and can be improved by fringe
analysis
Surface height of large objects were determined
Errors in measurements :
1. Miscalibration of the phase shifter
2. Spurious reflections and diffractions
3. Quality limitations of the optical elements
4. Nonlinearities and resolution of CCD
5. Air turbulence and vibrations
6. Photorefractive Errors: Temporal modulation of
holographic interferograms and temporal
fluctuations of thermal dependence on the
photorefractive effect