Abstract
A method is presented that can be applied to phase-step interferometry to locate the regions within which integral multiples of π should be added to the wrapped phase that results from arctangent calculations. Unlike previous methods, this one is immune to the noise-related errors that confuse simple phase-unwrap schemes. It makes use of the fact that the noise-related errors occur at fixed locations in the phase map, whereas the location of the wrap regions depends on the way in which the arctangent is calculated.
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