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http://dx.doi.org/10.7736/KSPE.2014.31.11.999

Sub-sampling Technique to Improve the Measurement Speed of White Light Scanning Interferometry  

Chyun, In-Bum (LINC, Chosun University)
Joo, Ki-Nam (Department of Photonic Engineering, Chosun University)
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Abstract
In this investigation, we explain the sub-sampling technique of white light scanning interferometry (WLSI) to improve the measurement speed. In addition to the previous work using Fourier domain analysis, several methods to extract the height from the correlogram of WLSI are described with the sub-sampling technique. Especially, Fourier-inverse Fourier transformation method adopting sub-sampling technique is proposed and the phase compensation technique is verified with simulation and experiments. The main advantage of sub-sampling is to speed up the measurements of WLSI but the precision such as repeatability is slightly poor. In case of measuring the sample which has high height step or difference, the proposed technique can be widely used to reduce the measurement time.
Keywords
White light scanning interferometry; sub-sampling; aliasing; measurement speed; Fourier transformation;
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