Interferometric imaging is a well established method to image phase objects by mixing the image wavefront with a reference one on a CCD camera. It has also been applied to fast transient phenomena, mostly through the analysis of single interferograms. It is shown that for repetitive phenomena multiphase acquisition brings significant advantages. A 1 MHz focused sound field emitted by a hemispherical piezotransducer in water is imaged as an example. Quantitative image analysis provides high resolution sound field profiles. Pressure at focus determined by this method agrees with measurements from a fiber-optic probe hydrophone. This confirms that multiphase interferometric imaging can indeed provide quantitative measurements.
@article{arxiv.1011.2298,
title = {Time-resolved quantitative multiphase interferometric imaging of a highly focused ultrasound pulse},
author = {Fabien Souris and Jules Grucker and Philippe Jacquier and Jacques Dupont-Roc and Arnaud Arvengas and Frédéric Caupin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2298},
year = {2010}
}