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Parallel Phase-Shifting Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect
2010
Digital holography allows us to record and process digitally the complex amplitude distribution associated to diffracted light beams and therefore has offered new possibilities for a variety of applications such as 3D microscopy, interferometry, or information security (see, for example, review [1]). In principle, phase-shifting techniques are the most efficient in terms of spatial resolution to record digital holograms [2]. However, a sequential acquisition of several interference patterns with different phase retardations of the reference beam is necessary, preventing dynamic measurements. Different techniques for time-resolved dynamic interferometry have been developed allowing one-shot …
Source linewidth effects in temporal imaging of Gaussian Schell-model pulses
2006
A transform-limited Gaussian pulse generated from an externally modulated stationary source is launched within a temporal imaging system composed of a second-order dispersion followed by a time lens and a subsequent quadratic dispersion. We consider the effect of the statistical properties of the emitted light for temporal imaging. In particular, it is shown that the design parameters that ensure a received signal with the minimum root-mean-square (rms) width achievable, which is called the temporal image of the incident pulse, are strongly dependent on the coherence properties of the input waveform. Finally, limitations on the temporal resolution of the setup are highlighted and a realisti…
The Intensities of Methane in the 3–5 μm Region Revisited
2001
The analysis of the linestrengths of the infrared spectrum of methane (12 and 13) in the 3-5 µm region has been revisited on the basis of new measurements from Fourier transform spectra recorded at Kitt Peak under various optical densities. A simultaneous fit of these new data with previously reported tunable difference-frequency laser data has been done. An effective transition moment model in tensorial form up to the third order of approximation within the Pentad scheme has been used. The standard deviations achieved are very close to the experimental precision: 3 and 1.5%, respectively, for the two sets of data for the (12)CH(4) molecule, representing a substantial improvement with respe…
Full field of view super-resolution imaging based on two static gratings and white light illumination.
2008
The usage of two static gratings for obtaining super-resolved imaging dates back to the work by Bachl and Lukosz in 1967. However, in their approach a severe reduction in the field of view was the necessary condition for improving the resolution. We present an approach based on two static gratings without sacrificing the field of view. The key idea for not paying with the field of view is to use white light illumination to average the ghost images obtained outside the region of interest since the positions of those images are wavelength dependent. Moreover, large magnification is achieved by using a commercial microscope objective instead of a test system with a unity magnification as prese…
Variable zoom digital in-line holographic microscopy
2020
Abstract We report on a novel layout providing variable zoom in digital in-line holographic microscopy (VZ-DIHM). The implementation is in virtue of an electrically tunable lens (ETL) which enables to slightly shift the illumination source axial position without mechanical movement of any system component. Magnifications ranging from ~15X to ~35X are easily achievable using the same layout and resulting in a substantial variation of the total field of view (FOV). The performance of the proposed setup is, first, validated using a resolution test target where the main parameters are analyzed (theoretically and experimentally) and, second, corroborated analyzing biological sample (prostate can…
IMAGINE: A Cold Neutron Imaging Station at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin
2015
International audience; A second cold neutron imaging station has been open to users at the Laboratoire Léon Brillouin. The station is designed for high resolution neutron imaging and tomography. The typical field of view is 100x100 mm2 with a spatial resolution of 100 μm. Betterspatial resolutions (∼50 μm) can be achieved when reducing the field of view down to 30x30mm2. The L/D ratio can be varied from 200 to1000with pinhole sizes ranging from 20 to7 mm. Future upgrades will provide capabilities for energy resolved measurements using either a velocity selector or a double crystal monochromator. The possibility to perform polarized neutron experiments will also be provided next year.
Multi-illumination single-holographic-exposure lensless Fresnel (MISHELF) microscopy using 4 channels
2021
MISHELF microscopy is generalized by considering 4 illumination/detection channels while retaining single-shot working principle, twin image mitigation and noise averaging. Proof of principle validation is included considering a resolution test target.
Impact of slow gain dynamics on soliton molecules in mode-locked fiber lasers
2012
International audience; We theoretically demonstrate and experimentally confirm the major influence of gain dynamics on soliton molecules that self-assemble in mode-locked lasers. Both slow gain recovery and depletion play a pivotal role in the formation of chirped soliton molecules characterized by an increasing separation from leading to trailing pulses. These chirped molecules actually consist of many pulses and may be termed macromolecules. They are experimentally observed in a fiber laser and numerically modeled by an approach that properly includes the slow gain dynamics. Furthermore, it is shown that these processes stabilize soliton trains in fiber lasers by inhibiting internal osci…
Holographically aided iterative phase retrieval
2012
Fourier transform holography (FTH) is a noise-resistant imaging technique which allows for nanometer spatial resolution x-ray imaging, where the inclusion of a small reference scattering object provides the otherwise missing phase information. With FTH, one normally requires a considerable distance between the sample and the reference to ensure spatial separation of the reconstruction and its autocorrelation. We demonstrate however that this requirement can be omitted at the small cost of iteratively separating the reconstruction and autocorrelation. In doing so, the photon efficiency of FTH can be increased due to a smaller illumination area, and we show how the presence of the reference p…
Cubic optical nonlinearity of
1999
We perform angular non-critical phase-matching third-harmonic generation (THG) experiments in (KTP). From these experiments, we determine the magnitude and sign of the two phase-matched nonlinear coefficients of by a complete analysis of phase-matching properties of the cascaded quadratic and pure cubic processes, the resolution of the coupled propagation equations and by the calculation of the quadratic and cubic dielectric susceptibility tensor by an extended bond charge model; we find: and . We also demonstrate that the two studied THG are mainly governed by the cubic interaction.