Twin-image elimination in optical scanning holography

We propose a novel multiplexing technique to solve the twin image problem in optical scanning holography without the use of a spatial carrier, as commonly used in conventional off-axis holography. The technique involves simultaneously acquiring sine and cosine Fresnel zone-lens plate coded images by optical scanning. A complex addition of the two coded images will then be performed and decoded to give a twin-image rejection reconstruction. Computer simulations will be presented to demonstrate the validity of the idea.     

光学扫描全息术的推广

给出了光学扫描全息术的基本原理。记录时用实时 FZP与物体强度透射率发生卷积从而产生扫描全息图 ;再现时用与记录时相对应的 FZP与全息图信号发生卷积即可再现出物体的信息。推广了光学扫描全息术 ,提出只要某一实时的光场强度分布函数具有如下性质 :(l)该函数中含有 x,y,z参量且相对于 z参量具有圆对称性 ;(2 )对于某一确定的 z参量 ,该函数的自相关是δ函数 ,就可以把该光场作为光学扫描全息术中的照明光场对物体进行扫描记录以得到扫描全息图。     

Amplified optical window for three-dimensional images

A proposed amplified optical window can form an observable three-dimensional image of an object in darkness. The window comprises two gradient-index (GRIN) lens arrays with an image intensifier between them. The length of the individual GRIN lenses that constitute the arrays is three fourths of the cycle of the meandering optical path on the input side and one fourth of the cycle on the output side. A primitive experimental result proved that the method produces three-dimensional images to be observed. This device would be used as a viewer for observing three-dimensional objects in a dark space without a camera and display equipment.     

Polarization imaging by use of optical scanning holography

Optical Review - Polarization information is useful for various applications such as remote sensing and biomedical imaging. In general, polarization information is obtained using a polarization...     

Anisotropic edge enhancement in optical scanning holography with spiral phase filtering

Anisotropic edge enhancement is simulated using a spiral phase plate(SPP) in optical scanning holography(OSH). We propose to use a delta function and an SPP as the pupil functions to realize anisotropic edge enhancement. The interference of these two pupils is used to two-dimensionally scan an object to record its edge-only information. This is done in three ways: first, by shifting the SPP, second, by using two offset SPPs of same charge, and finally, by using two oppositely charged SPPs. Our computer simulations show the capability of selectively enhancing the edges of a given object.     

Wave optical analysis of integral method for three-dimensional images

We analyze by wave optics an integral method that produces three-dimensional (3D) images. The point light source is given at the pickup stage, and the light wave passing through each elemental lens is obtained at the display stage. The amplitude distributions of the waves from each elemental image are the same around a specific point where a 3D image is formed. Since the light waves approaching the image plane from different elemental lenses are incoherent, the synthesized value is the sum of the squared amplitudes of the waves. Therefore the modulation transfer function of this integral method is given by that of a single elemental lens.     

CG光学扫描全息术和FZP光学扫描全息术分辨率比较

本文通过计算机仿真对ＦＺＰ 光学扫描全息术和ＣＧ 光学扫描全息术的横向和纵向分辨率进行了比较。无论是ＦＺＰ 还是ＣＧ 光学扫描全息术,其系统的分辨率与它们的环数有关,当环数越多时,分辨率越高。对于同样大小的ＦＺＰ 和ＣＧ,ＣＧ 光学扫描全息系统的分辨率比ＦＺＰ 光学扫描全息系统的分辨率要好     

Numerical simulation of nanoparticle images in scanning near-field optical microscopy

The images of magnetic and nonmagnetic nanoparticles obtained by scanning near-field microscopy in the photon collection mode are numerically simulated. A theoretical approach that uses tensor electrodynamic Green’s functions to find the optical near field in a given observation scheme is considered. Typicalimages of nanoparticles with various shapes are obtained by numerical simulation. Subject to boundary conditions, the plane of polarization is shown to change at topographic features (edges and angles) of objects studied. This makes the observation of the magnetic structure of a nanoparticle with a magnetooptic method difficult. The near-field study of the magnetization distribution in homogeneous thin films appears to be more effective, since the rotation of plane of polarization is associated primarily with the magnetic properties of the sample in this case.     

Atomically resolved images from near node photoelectron holography experiments on Al(111)

Sz?ke's concept for electron holography is hampered by forward scattering that dominates electron diffraction from electron point sources below the surface top layer. Forward scattering was proposed to be suppressed if the anisotropic nature of the electron source wave is exploited [T. Greber and J. Osterwalder, Chem. Phys. Lett. 256, 653 (1996)]. Experiments show a strong suppression of forward scattering in Al(111) if Al 2s photoelectrons (E(kin) = 952 eV) are measured near the nodal plane of the outgoing p wave. The holographic reconstruction from such diffraction data provides three dimensional images of atomic sites in unit cells with a size of more than 10 A.     

Light-in-flight holography for visualization and velocimetry in three-dimensional flows

Flow visualization and particle image velocimetry of deep volumes are achieved by holographic recordings. Light-in-flight holography is applied to avoid noise from out-of-focus regions during interrogation of the reconstructed image by use of a ruby laser source of small coherence. The scheme permits reconstruction of thin layers in depth without disturbance by the rest of the field. The location of the layers is selected by the position of a reconstructing slit aperture on the hologram. Applications to tracer particles in water and visualization by smoke of an air flow are given.     

Design of three-dimensional imaging lidar optical system for large field of view scanning

Three-dimensional (3D) lidar has been widely used in various fields. The MEMS scanning system is one of its most important components, while the limitation of scanning angle is the main obstacle to improve the demerit for its application in various fields. In this paper, a folded large field of view scanning optical system is proposed. The structure and parameters of the system are determined by theoretical derivation of ray tracing. The optical design software Zemax is used to design the system. After optimization, the final structure performs well in collimation and beam expansion. The results show that the scan angle can be expanded from ±5° to ±26.5°, and finally the parallel light scanning is realized. The spot diagram at a distance of 100 mm from the exit surface shows that the maximum radius of the spot is 0.506 mm with a uniformly distributed spot. The maximum radius of the spot at 100 m is 19 cm, and the diffusion angle is less than 2 mrad. The energy concentration in the spot range is greater than 90% with a high system energy concentration, and the parallelism is good. This design overcomes the shortcoming of the small mechanical scanning angle of the MEMS lidar, and has good performance in collimation and beam expansion. It provides a design method for large-scale application of MEMS lidar.     

Cascaded liquid crystal holography for optical encryption

Cascaded holography coupled with the secret-sharing scheme has recently gained considerable attention due to its enhanced information processing and encryption capabilities. Here, we propose a new holographic iterative algorithm and present the implementation of cascaded liquid crystal(LC) holography for optical encryption. Each LC layer acts as the secret key and can generate a distinct holographic image. By cascading two LC elements, a new holographic image is formed. Additionally, we showcase...     

Polarization holography for measuring photoinduced optical anisotropy

A new experimental method for measuring the optical anisotropy induced at photochemical reactions is proposed. The method is based on polarization holography and is a zero-background high sensitive technique. It is used to measure the molecular dichroism of fluorescein and the birefrigence induced at the additional photopolymerization of PMMA.     

Variable tomographic scanning with wavelength scanning digital interference holography

We present a new method for variable tomographic scanning based on the wavelength scanning digital interference holography (WSDIH). A series of holograms are generated with a range of scanned wavelengths. The object field is reconstructed in a number of selected tilted planes from each hologram, and the numerical superposition of all the tilted object fields results in a variable tomographic scanning. The scanning direction can be arbitrary angles in 3D space but not limited in a 2D plane, thus the proposed algorithm offers more flexibility for acquiring and observing randomly orientated features of a specimen in a WSDIH system. Experiments are performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.     

Aberration-free optical systems for the formation of extended three-dimensional images of particle ensembles

Holographic recording of three-dimensional ensembles of small particles require objectives of unit magnification producing diffraction images of points of a three-dimensional object space. The possibility of magnifying a space imaged without aberrations is analyzed as applied to the problem of recording three-dimensional ensembles of particles. It is found that the condition for aberration-free formation of three-dimensional images consists not only in the elimination of aberrations for a pair of conjugate object and image planes, but also in the correction of aberrations in pupils. The utilization of concentric mirror-lens objectives is shown to be a promising solution to this problem. Objectives with a numerical aperture of 0.1 and a resolution of 3.2 μm, which provide a volume of space imaged without aberrations up to 10³ cm³, are calculated. __________ Translated from Optika i Spektroskopiya, Vol. 88, No. 2, 2000, pp. 341–346. Original Russian Text Copyright ? 2000 by Grammatin, Stasel’ko.     

Information processes in optical echo holography

A set-theoretical method for studying information processes in resonant media with phase memory is developed. The conversion of the classical information carried by the object laser pulse into the potential (structural) quantum information of the resonant medium that takes place during the recording of a phase echo hologram is studied. It is shown that a resonant medium with phase memory stores quantum information in the form of an information-phase grating (the distribution of qubits within the inhomogeneously broadened line of a resonant transition). The temporal evolution of this grating is studied as a function of the times of reversible and irreversible relaxation of the system.     

Phase-shifting error and its elimination in phase-shifting digital holography

We investigate the influence of phase-shifting error on the quality of the reconstructed image in digital holography and propose a method of error elimination for a perfect image. In this method the summation of the intensity bit errors of the reconstructed image is taken as an evaluation function for an iterative algorithm to find the exact phase-shifting value. The feasibility of this method is demonstrated by computer simulation.     

Associative mappings by optical holography

Algebra-based content addressable memories have been constructed recently using optical methods. We show here that holography can accomplish the same tasks on much larger vectors.     

Illumination-angle-scanning digital interference holography for optical section imaging

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new (to our knowledge) digital holographic method to reconstruct section images of objects with wavelength-dependent reflectivity. A number of holograms of an object are taken as the illumination angle of the laser beam with a specific wavelength is changed in regular intervals. The complex object fields reconstructed from the holograms are numerically superposed to show the image of a sliced section of the object, whose position and thickness can be chosen arbitrarily. By changing the wavelength of the illumination beam, wavelength-dependent section images can be obtained with our method.