Axial resolution post-processing engineering in Fresnel incoherent correlation holography

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Hauptverfasser: Gopinath, Shivasubramanian, Rosen, Joseph, Anand, Vijayakumar
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author Gopinath, Shivasubramanian
Rosen, Joseph
Anand, Vijayakumar
author_facet Gopinath, Shivasubramanian
Rosen, Joseph
Anand, Vijayakumar
contents Fresnel incoherent correlation holography (FINCH) is a self-interference-based incoherent digital holography method. In FINCH, light from an object point is split into two beams, modulated differently using two lenses with different focal distances, and creates a self-interference hologram. At least three phase-shifted holograms are recorded and synthesized into a complex hologram, which reconstructs the object image without twin image and bias noises. Compared with conventional imaging, FINCH exhibits a longer depth of focus (DOF) and higher lateral resolution. In this study, we propose and demonstrate a new method termed post-engineering of axial resolution in FINCH (PEAR-FINCH), which enables post-recording DOF engineering for the first time. In PEAR-FINCH, a library of FINCH holograms catalogued with unique axial characteristics, DOF, and focus location is recorded by changing the focal distance of one of the diffractive lenses. Selected holograms from this library are combined to engineer new axial characteristics not achievable in FINCH. A two-step reconstruction, involving numerical back-propagation and deconvolution with a point spread hologram, is implemented. Experiments with multiplane objects having large axial separations confirm that PEAR-FINCH achieves a substantially extended DOF compared with direct imaging and FINCH. PEAR-FINCH will be promising for applications in biomedical imaging, holography, and fluorescence microscopy.
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spellingShingle Axial resolution post-processing engineering in Fresnel incoherent correlation holography
Gopinath, Shivasubramanian
Rosen, Joseph
Anand, Vijayakumar
Optics
Computational Physics
Fresnel incoherent correlation holography (FINCH) is a self-interference-based incoherent digital holography method. In FINCH, light from an object point is split into two beams, modulated differently using two lenses with different focal distances, and creates a self-interference hologram. At least three phase-shifted holograms are recorded and synthesized into a complex hologram, which reconstructs the object image without twin image and bias noises. Compared with conventional imaging, FINCH exhibits a longer depth of focus (DOF) and higher lateral resolution. In this study, we propose and demonstrate a new method termed post-engineering of axial resolution in FINCH (PEAR-FINCH), which enables post-recording DOF engineering for the first time. In PEAR-FINCH, a library of FINCH holograms catalogued with unique axial characteristics, DOF, and focus location is recorded by changing the focal distance of one of the diffractive lenses. Selected holograms from this library are combined to engineer new axial characteristics not achievable in FINCH. A two-step reconstruction, involving numerical back-propagation and deconvolution with a point spread hologram, is implemented. Experiments with multiplane objects having large axial separations confirm that PEAR-FINCH achieves a substantially extended DOF compared with direct imaging and FINCH. PEAR-FINCH will be promising for applications in biomedical imaging, holography, and fluorescence microscopy.
title Axial resolution post-processing engineering in Fresnel incoherent correlation holography
topic Optics
Computational Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26179