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This work studies phase retrieval for wave fields, aiming to recover the phase of an incoming wave from multi-plane intensity measurements behind different types of linear and nonlinear media. We show that unique phase retrieval can be…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-22 Yan Cheng , Kui Ren , Nathan Soedjak

This work introduces a novel Fourier phase retrieval model, called polarimetric phase retrieval that enables a systematic use of polarization information in Fourier phase retrieval problems. We provide a complete characterization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Julien Flamant , Konstantin Usevich , Marianne Clausel , David Brie

We investigate the uniqueness of short-time Fourier transform phase retrieval problems in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. In particular, for underlying window functions whose Fourier transform decay faster than any exponential function, we derive…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Shuang Guan , Kasso A. Okoudjou

The phase retrieval problem in the classical setting is to reconstruct real/complex functions from the magnitudes of their Fourier/frame measurements. In this paper, we consider a new phase retrieval paradigm in the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Yang Chen , Cheng Cheng , Qiyu Sun

Generally, phase retrieval problem can be viewed as the reconstruction of a function/signal from only the magnitude of the linear measurements. These measurements can be, for example, the Fourier transform of the density function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Bing Gao , Haixia Liu , Yang Wang

Consider a scenario in which an unknown signal is transformed by a known linear operator, and then the pointwise absolute value of the unknown output function is reported. This scenario appears in several applications, and the goal is to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Dustin G. Mixon

Considering the ambiguousness of the discrete-time phase retrieval problem to recover a signal from its Fourier intensities, one can ask the question: what additional information about the unknown signal do we need to select the correct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Robert Beinert , Gerlind Plonka

Phase retrieval has become a very active area of research. We will classify when phase retrieval by Parseval frames passes to the Naimark complement and when phase retrieval by projections passes to the orthogonal complements. We introduce…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-30 Saeid Bahmanpour , Jameson Cahill , Peter G. Casazza , John Jasper , Lindsey M. Woodland

Phase retrieval refers to recovering a signal from its Fourier magnitude. This problem arises naturally in many scientific applications, such as ultra-short laser pulse characterization and diffraction imaging. Unfortunately, phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin , Yonina C. Eldar

Fourier phase retrieval is a classical problem that deals with the recovery of an image from the amplitude measurements of its Fourier coefficients. Conventional methods solve this problem via iterative (alternating) minimization by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Rakib Hyder , Zikui Cai , M. Salman Asif

In diffraction imaging, one is tasked with reconstructing a signal from its power spectrum. To resolve the ambiguity in this inverse problem, one might invoke prior knowledge about the signal, but phase retrieval algorithms in this vein…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-26 Afonso S. Bandeira , Yutong Chen , Dustin G. Mixon

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

The classical phase retrieval problem involves estimating a signal from its Fourier magnitudes (power spectrum) by leveraging prior information about the desired signal. This paper extends the problem to compact groups, addressing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

In recent work [P. Grohs and M. Rathmair. Stable Gabor Phase Retrieval and Spectral Clustering. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (2018)] and [P. Grohs and M. Rathmair. Stable Gabor phase retrieval for multivariate functions.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Martin Rathmair

In this work we analyze the problem of phase retrieval from Fourier measurements with random diffraction patterns. To this end, we consider the recently introduced PhaseLift algorithm, which expresses the problem in the language of convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 David Gross , Felix Krahmer , Richard Kueng

The generalized phase retrieval problem over compact groups aims to recover a set of matrices -- representing an unknown signal -- from their associated Gram matrices. This framework generalizes the classical phase retrieval problem, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Tal Amir , Tamir Bendory , Nadav Dym , Dan Edidin

The purpose of this article is to discuss recent advances in the growing field of phase retrieval, and to publicize open problems that we believe will be of interest to mathematicians in general, and algebraists in particular.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

The principal limitation in many areas of astronomy, especially for directly imaging exoplanets, arises from instability in the point spread function (PSF) delivered by the telescope and instrument. To understand the transfer function, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Alison Wong , Benjamin Pope , Louis Desdoigts , Peter Tuthill , Barnaby Norris , Chris Betters

The paper considers the phase retrieval problem in N-dimensional complex vector spaces. It provides two sets of deterministic measurement vectors which guarantee signal recovery for all signals, excluding only a specific subspace and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Volker Pohl , Fanny Yang , Holger Boche

A new method for phase recovery from a single two-beam interferogram is presented. Conventional approaches, relying on trigonometric inversion followed by phase unfolding and unwrapping, are hindered by discontinuities typically addressed…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 V. Berejnov , B. Y. Rubinstein