• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 23, Issue 2, 021101 (2025)
Yunyun Chen1,2,3,4,*, Chengxing He1,3,4, Weihao Cheng1,3,4, and Wenzhuo Xie1,3,4
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • 2Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • 3Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Optoelectronic Detection of Atmosphere and Ocean, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • 4Jiangsu International Joint Laboratory on Meteorological Photonics and Optoelectronic Detection, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.021101 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yunyun Chen, Chengxing He, Weihao Cheng, Wenzhuo Xie, "Phase unwrapping by a multi-level grid method for moiré fringes," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 021101 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Phase unwrapping is a crucial process in the field of optical measurement, and the effectiveness of unwrapping directly affects the accuracy of final results. This study proposes a multi-level grid method that can efficiently achieve phase unwrapping. First, the phase image of the package to be processed is divided into small grids, and each grid is unwrapped in multiple directions. Then, a level-by-level coarse-graining mesh method is employed to eliminate the new data “faults” generated from the previous level of grid processing. Finally, the true phase results are obtained by iterating to the coarsest grid through the unwrapping process. In order to verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, a numerical simulation is first applied. Further, three typical flow fields are selected for experiments, and the results are compared with flood-fill and multi-grid methods for accuracy and efficiency. The proposed method obtains true phase information in just 0.5 s; moreover, it offers more flexibility in threshold selection compared to the flood-fill and region-growing methods. In summary, the proposed method can solve the phase unwrapping problems for moiré fringes, which could provide possibilities for the intelligent development of moiré deflection tomography.
    ϕ2j×2j(m,q)=(a11a12a21a22),

    View in Article

    {a11=ϕ2j×2j(m,q)(2j1+(m1)×2j,2j1+(q1)×2j)a12=ϕ2j×2j(m,q)(2j1+(m1)×2j+1,2j1+(q1)×2j)a21=ϕ2j×2j(m,q)(2j1+(m1)×2j,2j1+(q1)×2j+1)a22=ϕ2j×2j(m,q)(2j1+(m1)×2j+1,2j1+(q1)×2j+1).

    View in Article

    ϕ2j×2j(m,q)=(a11a12+Mr×2πa21+Mc×2πa22+Md×2π),

    View in Article

    Δϕ2j×2j(m,q)=ϕ2j×2j(m,q)ϕ2j×2j(m,q)=(Δϕ(m,q),1Δϕ(m,q),2Δϕ(m,q),3Δϕ(m,q),4).

    View in Article

    ϕ2j1×2j1(m,q)=ϕ2j1×2j1(m,q)+Δϕ(m,q),i,

    View in Article

    φ(x,y)=ϕ2n×2n(x,y).

    View in Article

    Yunyun Chen, Chengxing He, Weihao Cheng, Wenzhuo Xie, "Phase unwrapping by a multi-level grid method for moiré fringes," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 021101 (2025)
    Download Citation