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Digital holographic microscopy with pure-optical spherical phase compensation

Ana DoblasEmilio Sánchez-ortigaManuel Martínez-corralPietro FerraroGenaro Saavedra

subject

DYNAMICSMaterials sciencebusiness.industryPhase distortionPhase (waves)Image processingResidualCONTRAST MICROSCOPYAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsCompensation (engineering)INTERFEROMETRYIMAGE-RECONSTRUCTIONOpticsNUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTIONDigital holographic microscopyComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSpatial frequencybusinessDigital holography

description

Telecentric architecture is proposed for circumventing, by the pure-optical method, the residual parabolic phase distortion inherent to standard configuration of digital holographic microscopy. This optical circumvention produces several important advantages. One is that there is no need for computer compensation of the parabolic phase during the phase map recovering procedure. The other is that in off-axis configuration, the spatial frequency useful domain is enlarged. The validity of the method is demonstrated by performing quantitative measurement of depth differences with high axial resolution. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.28.001410