Phase retrieval by Euclidean distance in self-calibrating generalized phase-shifting interferometry of three steps

This paper presents a novel algorithm for phase extraction based on the computation of the Euclidean distance from a point to an ellipse. The idea consists in extracting the intensities from a data row or column in three interferograms to form points of intensity and then fitting them to an ellipse by the method of least squares. The Euclidean distance for each intensity point is computed to find a parametric phase whose value is associated to the object phase. The main advantage of the present method is to avoid the use of tangent function, reducing the error in the desired phase computation.