Sideband holography can be used to get fields images (E0 and E1) of a vibrating object for both the carrier (E0) and the sideband (E1) frequency with respect to vibration. We propose here to record E0 and E1 sequentially, and to image the correlation E1E * 0 . We show that this correlation is insensitive the phase related to the object roughness and directly reflect the phase of the mechanical motion. The signal to noise can be improved by averaging the correlation over neighbor pixel. Experimental validation is made with vibrating cube of wood and with a clarinet reed. At 2 kHz, vibrations of amplitude down to 0.01 nm are detected. PACS numbers: 120.7280,090.1995PACS numbers: 120.7280,090. ,040.2840PACS numbers: 120.7280,090. ,120.2880 Citation: N. Verrier, L. Alloul, and M. Gross, Opt. Lett. 40, 411-414 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.000411There is a big demand for full field vibration measurements, in particular in industry. Different holographic techniques are able to image and analyze such vibrations. Double pulse [1,2] or multi pulse holography [3] records several holograms with time separation in the 1...1000 µs range, getting the instantaneous velocity from the phase difference. If the vibration frequency is not too high, one can also directly track the vibration of the object with fast CMOS cameras [4,5]. The analysis of the motion can be done by phase difference or by Fourier analysis in the time domain. For periodic vibration motions, measurements can be done with slow camera. Indeed, an harmonically vibrating object illuminated by a laser yields alternate dark and bright fringes [6], that can be analyzed by time averaged holography [7]. Although the time averaged method gives a way to determine the amplitude of vibration [8] quantitative measurement remains quite difficult for low and high vibration amplitudes.We have developed heterodyne holography [9, 10], which is a variant of phase shifting holography, in which the frequency, phase and amplitude of both reference and signal beam are controlled by acousto optic modulators (AOM). Heterodyne holography is thus extremely versatile. By shifting the frequency of the local oscillator ω LO with respect to illumination ω 0 , it is for example possible to detect the holographic signal at a frequency ω different than illumination ω 0 . This ability is extremely useful to analyze vibration, since heterodyne holography can detect selectively the signal that is scattered by object on vibration sideband of frequency ω m = ω 0 + mω A , where ω A is the vibration frequency and m and integer index.As was reported by Ueda et al, [11] the detection of the sideband m=1 is advantageous when the vibration amplitude is small. Nanometric vibration amplitude measurements were achieved with sideband digital holography on the m = 1 sideband [12], and comparison with single point laser interferometry has been made [13]. Verrier et al. [14] have shown that one can simultaneously measure E 0 and E 1 by using a local oscillator with two frequency components. One can t...