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Scattering imaging is often hindered by extremely low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) due to the prevalence of scattering noise. Light field imaging has been shown to be effective in suppressing noise and collect more ballistic photons as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Hongkun Cao , Xin Jin , Junjie Wei , Yihui Fan , Dongyu Du

We demonstrate two-step phase-shifting interferometry (holography) of complex laser modes generated by a spatial light modulator (SLM), in which the amplitude and phase of the signal are determined directly from measurements of…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-16 Lark E. Bradsby , Andrew A. Voitiv , Mark E. Siemens

This paper investigates experimental means of measuring the transmission matrix (TM) of a highly scattering medium, with the simplest optical setup. Spatial light modulation is performed by a digital micromirror device (DMD), allowing high…

Phase imaging techniques extract the optical path-length information of a scene, whereas wavefront sensors provide the shape of an optical wavefront. Since these two applications have different technical requirements, they have developed…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 F. Soldevila , V. Durán , P. Clemente , J. Lancis , E. Tajahuerce

We present a simple and novel technique for interferometric surface measurement using a Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) as phase shifter and wavefront-compensator simultaneously. In comparison to a mechanical…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-13 Indrani Bhattacharya , Marcus Petz , Rainer Tutsch

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are central to numerous applications ranging from high-speed displays to adaptive optics, structured illumination microscopy, and holography. After decades of advances, SLM arrays based on liquid crystals can…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Cheng Peng , Ryan Hamerly , Mohammad Soltani , Dirk Englund

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is a promising tool to efficiently probe the three-dimensional large-scale structure by mapping the aggregate emission of a spectral line from all sources that trace the matter density field. Spectral lines from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-09 Yun-Ting Cheng , Tzu-Ching Chang , James J. Bock

In this work, the SLM-based phase retrieval system will be used to inspect carbon reinforced plastics samples (CFRP) under applying a thermal load. For this purpose, the system is used to capture a sequence of 8 spatially separated…

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has been extensively used for imaging complex materials down to atomic resolution. The most commonly employed STEM modality, annular dark-field imaging, produces easily-interpretable…

Diffusion models have demonstrated their utility as learned priors for solving various inverse problems. However, most existing approaches are limited to linear inverse problems. This paper exploits the efficient and unsupervised posterior…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Figen S. Oktem

Phase is a fundamental resource for optical imaging but cannot be directly observed with intensity measurements. The existing methods to quantify a phase distribution rely on complex devices and structures. Here we experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-25 Tengfeng Zhu , Junyi Huang , Zhichao Ruan

We consider in this work an inverse acoustic scattering problem when only phaseless data is available. The inverse problem is highly nonlinear and ill-posed due to the lack of the phase information. Solving inverse scattering problems with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jianfeng Ning , Fuqun Han , Jun Zou

We describe a fast closed-loop optimization wavefront shaping system able to focus light through dynamic scattering media. A MEMS-based spatial light modulator (SLM), a fast photodetector and FPGA electronics are combined to implement a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Baptiste Blochet , Laurent Bourdieu , Sylvain Gigan

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Timur E. Gureyev , Hamish G. Brown , Harry M. Quiney , Leslie J. Allen

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Emmanuel Candes , Xiaodong Li , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

The phase characteristics of reflecting and transmitting type twisted nematic liquid crystal based Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) were measured using interferometry. Device parameters like contrast, brightness, input and output polarizer…

Phase retrieval, a nonlinear problem prevalent in imaging applications, has been extensively studied using random models, some of which with i.i.d. sensing matrix components. While these models offer robust reconstruction guarantees, they…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 Zhiyuan Hu , Julián Tachella , Michael Unser , Jonathan Dong

Under a thin lens and paraxial approximation, the phase transformation function of a lens was simulated on a Liquid Crystal (LC) based Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). The properties of an array of such lenses simulated on transmitting type…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-08 Akondi Vyas , M B Roopashree , B Raghavendra Prasad

Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) reconstructs a super-resolved image from multiple raw images captured with different illumination patterns; hence, acquisition speed is limited, making it unsuitable for dynamic scenes. We propose a…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-17 Ruiming Cao , Fanglin Linda Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Laura Waller

Holographic light potentials generated by phase-modulating liquid-crystal spatial light modulators (SLMs) are widely used in quantum technology applications. Accurate calibration of the wavefront and intensity profile of the laser beam at…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-13 P. Schroff , E. Haller , S. Kuhr , A. La Rooij