title: Phase errors due to speckles in laser fringe projection.
abstract: When measuring a three-dimensional shape with triangulation and projected interference fringes it is of interest to reduce speckle contrast without destroying the coherence of the projected light. A moving aperture is used to suppress the speckles and thereby reduce the phase error in the fringe image. It is shown that the phase error depends linearly on the ratio between the speckle contrast and the modulation of the fringes. In this investigation the spatial carrier method was used to extract the phase, where the phase error also depends on filtering the Fourier spectrum. An analytical expression for the phase error is derived. Both the speckle reduction and the theoretical expressions for the phase error are verified by simulations and experiments. It was concluded that a movement of the aperture by three aperture diameters during exposure of the image reduces the speckle contrast and hence the phase error by 60%. In the experiments, a phase error of 0.2 rad was obtained.
authors.affiliation: Division of Experimental Mechanics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden. sara.rosendahl@ltu.se
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosendahl
authors.forename: Emil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hällstig
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gren
authors.forename: Mikael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sjödahl