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We discuss a scheme for reconstructing experimentally the diagonal elements of the density matrix of quantum optical states. Applications to PDC heralded photons, multi-thermal and attenuated coherent states are illustrated and discussed in…

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Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) extends OCT by analyzing the polarization states of backscattered light to quantify tissue birefringence. However, conventional implementations require polarization-diverse…

Impressive pictures of moving Bose-Einstein condensates have been taken using phase-contrast imaging M. R. Andrews et al., Science 273, 84 (1996). We calculate the quantum backaction of this measurement technique. We find that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Leonhardt , T. Kiss , P. Piwnicki

The Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful interferometric imaging technique widely used in medical fields such as ophthalmology, cardiology and dermatology, for which footprint and cost are becoming increasingly important. Here…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) microscope (OCM) uses a high-numerical-aperture objective to achieve cellular-level lateral resolution. However, its practical imaging depth range is limited by the depth of focus (DOF). Although…

Optoacoustic tomography (OAT), also known as photoacoustic tomography, is an emerging computed biomedical imaging modality that exploits optical contrast and ultrasonic detection principles. Iterative image reconstruction algorithms that…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Kun Wang , Robert W Schoonover , Richard Su , Alexander Oraevsky , Mark A Anastasio

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence reflectometry to obtain cross-sectional images of inhomogeneous media, such as biological tissue. OCT is particularly useful in the biomedical ea, since the imaging can be performed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that couples optical tomography with ultrasound imaging to achieve high resolution imaging of optical properties of scattering media. Image reconstruction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Tian Ding , Kui Ren , Sarah Vallelian

Traditional iterative reconstruction methods are accurate but computationally expensive, limiting their use in high-throughput and real-time ptychography. Recent deep learning approaches improve speed, but often predict phase as a Euclidean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Carson Yu Liu , Jun Cheng , Chien-Chun Chen , Steve F. Shu

In this paper we study a realistic setup for phase retrieval, where the signal of interest is modulated or masked and then for each modulation or mask a diffraction pattern is collected, producing a coded diffraction pattern (CDP) [CLM13].…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Youssef Mroueh

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread success as an in vivo clinical diagnostic 3D imaging modality, impacting areas including ophthalmology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Despite its many advantages, such as high…

We present a new approach for constructing optical phase-space-time-frequency tomography (OPSTFT) of an optical wave field. This tomography can be measured by using a novel four-window optical imaging system based on two local oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Paul Rojas , Rachel Blaser , Yong Meng Sua , Kim Fook Lee

Ptychography promises diffraction limited resolution without the need for high resolution lenses. To achieve high resolution one has to solve the phase problem for many partially overlapping frames. Here we review some of the existing…

Optics · Physics 2012-09-24 C. Yang , J. Qian , A. Schirotzek , F. Maia , S. Marchesini

The phase unwrapping plays a key role in obtaining a ground-truth phase of the wrapped phase. High-accurate unwrapped phases are demanded in various research fields such as optical holography, optical diffraction tomography, and magnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-08 Alim Yolalmaz , Jeroen Kalkman

One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

We report Tensorial Tomographic Differential Phase-Contrast microscopy (T2DPC), a quantitative label-free tomographic imaging method for simultaneous measurement of phase and anisotropy. T2DPC extends differential phase-contrast microscopy,…

We propose a method for reconstruction of the optical potential from scattering data. The algorithm is a two-step procedure. In the first step the real part of the potential is determined analytically via solution of the Marchenko equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Khokhlov , V. A. Knyr

We present a pseudo-real-time retinal layer segmentation for high-resolution Sensorless Adaptive Optics-Optical Coherence Tomography (SAO-OCT). Our pseudo-real-time segmentation method is based on Dijkstra's algorithm that uses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Worawee Janpongsri , Joey Huang , Ringo Ng , Daniel J. Wahl , Marinko V. Sarunic , Yifan Jian

While optical coherence tomography (OCT) provides a resolution down to 1 micrometer it has difficulties to visualize cellular structures due to a lack of scattering contrast. By evaluating signal fluctuations, a significant contrast…

Analyser-Based Phase-Contrast imaging (ABPCI) is a phase-contrast imaging method that produces high contrast images of weakly absorbing materials. However, it is only sensitive to phase variations lying in the diffraction plane of the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 M. C. Chalmers , M. J. Kitchen , K. Uesugi , G. Falzon , P. Quin , K. M. Pavlov