We numerically demonstrate a novel method to simultaneously reconstruct two unknown interfering wavefronts. The speckle-based phase retrieval technique is applied to derive the interference field. The derived interference field along with the phase-shifting concept is used for calculating the interfering wavefronts. Our results show the success of this method even under noisy conditions.

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