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Phase Retrieval from Coded Diffraction Patterns

Information Theory 2013-11-08 v2 Functional Analysis math.IT Numerical Analysis Optimization and Control Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

This paper considers the question of recovering the phase of an object from intensity-only measurements, a problem which naturally appears in X-ray crystallography and related disciplines. We study a physically realistic setup where one can modulate the signal of interest and then collect the intensity of its diffraction pattern, each modulation thereby producing a sort of coded diffraction pattern. We show that PhaseLift, a recent convex programming technique, recovers the phase information exactly from a number of random modulations, which is polylogarithmic in the number of unknowns. Numerical experiments with noiseless and noisy data complement our theoretical analysis and illustrate our approach.

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@article{arxiv.1310.3240,
  title  = {Phase Retrieval from Coded Diffraction Patterns},
  author = {Emmanuel Candes and Xiaodong Li and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3240},
  year   = {2013}
}
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