An improved method of angle measurement is proposed based on a parallel plate interferometer. A position detection system is incorporated into a parallel plate interferometer in order to realize large deflection angle measurement. A reflecting mirror is introduced for increasing the measurement resolution. In experiments, a deflection angle of a measured target was measured within about 3 deg. with high accuracy. And as a phase modulating interferometer, it was used to measure a small angular displacement with a repeatability of 5.5*10^(-8) rad.

A new quality map for quality-guided phase unwrapping is presented. The quality map is derived from the wrapped phase map directly and can reflect phase quality accurately. It is demonstrated that the proposed quality map is a good phase-quality indicator, with which the quality-guided unwrapping algorithm can retrieve a reliable phase profile.