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Compact Lens-less Digital Holographic Microscope for MEMS Inspection and Characterization
Published on: July 5, 2016
Imaging a vibrating object by Sideband Digital Holography
1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UMR 8552 Ecole Normale Supérieure, UPMC, CNRS 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
Abstract:
We obtain quantitative measurements of the oscillation amplitude of vibrating objects by using sideband digital holography. The frequency sidebands on the light scattered by the object, shifted by n times the vibration frequency, are selectively detected by heterodyne holography, and images of the object are calculated for different orders n. Orders up to n = 120 have been observed, allowing the measurement of amplitudes of oscillation that are significantly larger than the optical wavelength. Using the positions of the zeros of intensity for each value of n, we reconstruct the shape of vibration the object.

