On strategy for determining displacement solely from perturbed phase of self mixing interferometry

While self mixing interferometry(SMI) has proven to be suitable for displacement measurement and other sensing applications,its characteristic self mixing signal shape is strongly governed by the non-linear phase equation which forms relation between perturbed and unperturbed phase of self mixing laser.Therefore, while it is desirable for robust estimation of displacement of moving target, the algorithms to achieve this must have an objective strategy which can be achieved by understanding the characteristic of extracting knowledge of perturbed phase from unperturbed phase. Therefore, it has been proved and shown that such strategy must not involve sole methods where perturbed phase is continuous function of unperturbed phase (e.g:Taylor series or fixed point methods) or through successive displacements (e.g: variations of Gauss Seidal method). Subset of this strategy is to perform spectral filtering of perturbed phase followed by perturbative or homotopic deformation. A less computationally expensive approach of this strategy is adopted to achieve displacement with mean error of 62.2nm covering all feedback regimes, when coupling factor 'C' is unknown.<br>