RT Journal Article T1 Temporal demodulation of fringe patterns with sensitivity change A1 Quiroga Mellado, Juan Antonio A1 Gómez Pedrero, José Antonio A1 Terrón López, M. José A1 Servín Guirado, Manuel AB There are many phase measuring experimental setups in which the rate of temporal phase variation cannot be easily determined. In the case of phase stepping techniques, asynchronous phase measuring techniques were developed to solve this problem. However, there are situations for which the standard asynchronous techniques are not appropriated, like experiments with a sensitivity variation in the phase. In this work, we present an asynchronous demodulation technique for which the only requirement is the monotonicity of the phase in time. The proposed method is based in the computation of the quadrature sign (QS) of the fringe pattern and afterwards the demodulation is performed by a simple arccos calculation, that thanks to the QS extends its range from half fringe to a modulo 2π calculation. The presented demodulation method is asynchronous, direct, fast and can be applied to a general n-dimensional case. We have applied the proposed method to a load stepping experimental fringe pattern obtaining good results. PB Elsevier Science BV SN 0030-4018 YR 2005 FD 2005-09-15 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50807 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50807 LA eng NO © 2005 Elsevier B. V.We acknowledge the interesting anonymous referees comments and the partial support for therealization of this work to the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain), under project DPI2002-02104. NO Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain) DS Docta Complutense RD 8 abr 2025