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Statistical processing of Newton's rings using discrete Fourier analysis

Victor Nascov, +2 more
- 01 Feb 2007 - 
- Vol. 46, Iss: 2, pp 028201
TLDR
In this paper, a numerical method for processing the fringes obtained when two waves, with a quadratic phase difference function, interfere is presented, which includes straight equispaced fringes and Newton's rings as particular cases.
Abstract
We present a practical numerical method for processing the fringes obtained when two waves, with a quadratic phase difference function, interfere. This kind of fringe includes straight equispaced fringes and Newton's rings as particular cases. The numerical method we present is based on the discrete Fresnel (Fourier) transform of the data and has the same precision as least square fitting (LSF). Compared to the LSF method, this new method is better, as it is more efficient and does not require initial approximations for the fringe parameters to be determined.

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