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Gigapixel inline digital holographic microscopy using a consumer scanner

Optics 2013-05-28 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate a gigapixel inline digital holographic microscopy using a consumer scanner. The consumer scanner can maximally scan an A4 size image (297mm x 210mm) with 4800 dpi (= 5.29 um), theoretically achieving a resolution of 56,144 x 39,698 = 2.22 gigapixels. The system using a consumer scanner has a simple structure, compared with synthetic aperture digital holography using a camera mounted on a two-dimensional moving stage. In this demonstration, we captured an inline hologram with 23,602 x 18,023 pixels (= 0.43 gigapixels). In addition, to accelerate the reconstruction time of the gigapixel hologram and decrease the amount of memory for the reconstruction, we applied the band-limited double-step Fresnel diffraction to the reconstruction.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6084,
  title  = {Gigapixel inline digital holographic microscopy using a consumer scanner},
  author = {Tomoyoshi Shimobaba and Hiroya Yamanashi and Takashi Kakue and Minoru Oikawa and Naohisa Okada and Yutaka Endo and Ryuji Hirayama and Nobuyuki Masuda and Tomoyoshi Ito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6084},
  year   = {2013}
}
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