Holographic Interferometry provides a valuable and up-to-date source of information in the rapidly expanding field. The eight specialists` contributions cover the principles and methods currently in use. The scope of the book has been limited to the study of opaque object and ample space has been devoted to a comprehensive treatment of the phenomena of fringe formation, with a particular emphasis on the quantitative evaluation of the holographic interference fringe patterns. The emergence of computer-aided fringe analysis and phase-shifting techniques have simplified considerably the quantative real-time measurements of object shapes and deformations. The last two chapters provide a reasonably detailedoverview of full-field holographic methods for the measurement of shapes, displacements, dervatives, difference displacements and vibrations.

Autorentext
Professor Pramod Rastogi received his MSc degree from the University of Lucknow, MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and doctorate degree from the University of Franche Comté in France. His research activities are principally in the area of holographic interferometry, speckle metrology, fiber optics sensors, phase shifting and moiré. He is the author or coauthor of many scientific papers and the author of book chapters, Encyclopaedia articles, and has edited several books in the field of optical metrology. Professor Rastogi is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1993) and a Fellow of the Society of the Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (1995). He is also a recipient of the "Hetényi Award" for the most significant research paper published in Experimental Mechanics in the year 1982.

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 2 Basic Principles.- 3 Quantitative Determination of Displacements and Strains from Holograms.- 4 Two-Reference-Beam Holographic Interferometry.- 5 Phase-Shifting Holographic Interferometry.- 6 Computer-Aided Evaluation of Holographic Interferograms.- 7 Techniques to Measure Displacements, Derivatives and Surface Shapes. Extension to Comparative Holography.- 8 Study of Vibrations.