Phase Estimation in Optical Interferometry

This tutorial-style book reviews experimental approaches for the analysis of solid mechanics based on interference-optical methods, including coherent-optical techniques and photoelastic methods. Suitable for advanced students, young researchers, and practicing metrologists and engineers, it describes the theory and scope of application in everyday practice. Takes a practical approach, the book familiarizes readers with various techniques and explains how and when to apply them.

Professor Pramod Rastogi is the author or coauthor of over 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed archival journals, the author of encyclopedia articles, and editor of several books in the field of optical metrology. Professor Rastogi is also the co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Optics and Lasers in Engineering. A recipient of the 2014 SPIE Dennis Gabor Award, he is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and a fellow of the Society of the Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers and the Optical Society of America. He received a PhD from the University of Franche Comte.

Dr. Erwin Hack is a senior scientist at EMPA, lecturer at ETH Zurich, associate editor ofOptics and Lasers in Engineering, vice chair of CEN WS71 on validation of computational solid mechanics models using strain fields from calibrated measurement (VANESSA), vice president of the Swiss Society for Non-Destructive Testing, and a member of EOS and OSA. Dr. Hack has authored or coauthored more than 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences and coedited the bookOptical Methods in Solid Mechanics. He received a PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Zurich. His research interests include THz imaging, digital speckle pattern interferometry, and thermography.