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Here we present practical methods for simulation and reconstruction of in-line digital holograms recorded with plane and spherical waves. The algorithms described here are applicable to holographic imaging of an object exhibiting absorption…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-29 Tatiana Latychevskaia , Hans-Werner Fink

Utilizing nonlinear interferometers for sensing with undetected light enables new sensing and imaging techniques in spectral ranges that are difficult to detect. To enhance this method for future applications, it is advantageous to extract…

Angular resolved digital holography is presented as a technique for real-time characterization of the full optical field (amplitude and phase) of space-division multiplexing components and fibers, here a 6-mode photonic-lantern is…

Usually, off-axis digital holographic microscopy requires a coherent light source in order to record a full-field hologram. Nevertheless, a LASER-based illumination leads to a non-negligible coherent noise, decreasing then the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-02 Stephane Perrin , Jonas Kuhn , Christian Depeursinge

We propose a new learning-based approach for 3D particle field imaging using holography. Our approach uses a U-net architecture incorporating residual connections, Swish activation, hologram preprocessing, and transfer learning to cope with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Siyao Shao , Kevin Mallery , Santosh Kumar , Jiarong Hong

Holographic displays are widely regarded as the "ultimate" display technology, promising immersive 3D visuals with natural depth cues, continuous parallax, and perceptual realism. Realizing this potential, however, has remained elusive due…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-20 Anzhou Wen , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Heterodyne holography is a variant of phase shifting holography in which reference and signal arms are controlled by acousto optic modulators. In this review paper, we will briefy describe the method and its properties, and we will…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-16 Michel Gross

While characterization of coherent wavefields is essential to laser, x-ray and electron imaging, sensors measure the squared magnitude of the field, rather than the field itself. Holography or phase retrieval must be used to characterize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 David J. Brady , Timothy J. Schulz , Chengyu Wang

Holographic rendering of off-axis intensity digital holograms is discussed. A review of some of the main numerical processing methods, based either on the Fourier transform interpretation of the propagation integral or on its linear system…

Optics · Physics 2011-11-18 Nicolas Verrier , Michael Atlan

Color encoding of depth is shown to occur naturally in images of objects observed through diffraction gratings under common white light illumination. A synthetic image is then obtained from a single point of view, a phenomenon that can be…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Lunazzi

We introduce a new, highly sensitive, and simple heterodyne optical method for imaging individual non-fluorescent nano-objects. A two orders of magnitude improvement of the signal is achieved compared to previous methods. This allows for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Berciaud , Laurent Cognet , Gerhard Blab , Brahim Lounis

Despite its potential for label-free particle diagnostics, holographic microscopy is limited by specialized processing methods that struggle to generalize across diverse settings. We introduce a deep learning architecture leveraging human…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Shyam Kumar , Jiarong Hong

We consider the phase sensing via weak optical coherent state at quantum limit precision. A new detection scheme for the phase estimation is proposed which is inspired by the suboptimal quantum measurement in coherent optical communication.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Shuro Izumi , Masahiro Takeoka , Kentaro Wakui , Mikio Fujiwara , Kazuhiro Ema , Masahide Sasaki

Non-invasive and single-shot holographic imaging through complex media is technically challenging due to random light scattering which significantly scrambles optical information. Recently, several methods have been presented to address…

We report the first experimental observation of quantum holographic imaging with entangled photon pairs, generated in a spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. The signal photons play both roles of "object wave" and "reference wave"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xin-Bing Song , De-Qin Xu , Hai-Bo Wang , Jun Xiong , Xiangdong Zhang , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

We exploit a slightly noncollinear second-harmonic cross-correlation scheme to map the 3D space-time intensity distribution of an unknown complex-shaped ultrashort optical pulse. We show the capability of the technique to reconstruct both…

We have compared the respective efficiencies of off-axis and phase-shifting holography in terms of noise and aliases removal. The comparison is made by analyzing holograms of an USAF target backlit with laser illumination, recorded with a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michel Gross , Michael Atlan , Emilie Absil

Computer-generated holograms with their animated, three-dimensional appearance have long appealed to our imagination as the path towards truly immersive displays with bi-directional natural parallax. Impressive progress in updateable 3-D…

Driven by single photon detection requirements especially for quantum information sciences, the theory of arrays of off-on detectors has been well developed and applied. However for a comprehensive characterization of nonclassicality one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 J. Sperling , W. Vogel , G. S. Agarwal