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Comparative analysis of signal-to-noise ratio in correlation plenoptic imaging architectures

Optics 2022-06-28 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Correlation plenoptic imaging (CPI) is a scanning-free diffraction-limited 3D optical imaging technique exploiting the peculiar properties of correlated light sources. CPI has been further extended to samples of interest to microscopy, such as fluorescent or scattering objects, in a modified architecture named correlation light-field microscopy (CLM). Interestingly, experiments have shown that the noise performances of CLM are significantly improved over the original CPI scheme, leading to better images and faster acquisition. In this work, we provide a theoretical foundation to such advantage by investigating the properties of both the signal-to-noise and the signal-to-background ratios of CLM and the original CPI setup.

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@article{arxiv.2206.13412,
  title  = {Comparative analysis of signal-to-noise ratio in correlation plenoptic imaging architectures},
  author = {Gianlorenzo Massaro and Giovanni Scala and Milena D'Angelo and Francesco V. Pepe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.13412},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 10 figures