Photonics (Oct 2022)

Surface Depth-Mapping of Material via the Transport-of-Intensity Equation

  • Nikita Stsepuro,
  • Michael Kovalev,
  • George Krasin,
  • Ivan Podlesnykh,
  • Yulia Gulina,
  • Sergey Kudryashov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9110815
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 11
p. 815

Abstract

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We present a new approach for a surface characterization based on the TIE method combined with the SEM. Experimental verification is carried out on the example of characterization of a crater on the surface of monocrystalline silicon (111). The approach is universal and can be used for any opaque object. It improves the robustness and stability of the quantitative phase retrieval process and has two important features. Firstly, it allows one to quantitatively retrieve the phase in a region of arbitrarily chosen dimensions. Secondly, phase retrieval process does not require the choice of boundary conditions.

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