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Compact Three-Dimensional Quantitative Phase Contrast Imager

Optics 2020-01-14 v1 Image and Video Processing

Abstract

Detection of phase variations across optically transparent samples is often a difficult task. We propose and demonstrate a compact, lightweight and low cost quantitative phase contrast imager. Light diffracted from a pinhole is incident on a thick object and the modulated light is collected by an image sensor and the intensity pattern is recorded. Two optical configurations namely lens-based and lensless cases are compared. A modified phase-retrieval algorithm is implemented to extract the phase information of the sample at different axial planes from a single camera shot.

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@article{arxiv.2001.03909,
  title  = {Compact Three-Dimensional Quantitative Phase Contrast Imager},
  author = {Vijayakumar Anand and Tomas Katkus and Denver Linklater and Elena P Ivanova and Saulius Juodkazis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.03909},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures

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