光学扫描全息术中的孪生像噪音及消除

阐述了光学扫描全息术的基本原理,分析了孪生像噪音的来源,提出了一种新的数字滤波方法.计算机仿真结果表明:孪生像噪音以振荡形式传播,降低了重构图像的信噪比,影响了重构图像的分辨率;用电子复用技术,即用复全息图函数代替实全息图函数的方法可以有效地消除孪生像噪音;采用单一通道对信号进行处理,即只用一个实全息图函数,通过数字滤波方法同样可以消除孪生像噪音,该方法简便、实用而有效.     

Twin-image elimination experiments for three-dimensional images in optical scanning holography

Twin-image elimination in the context of optical scanning holography has recently been proposed. The proposed technique involves simultaneously acquiring sine and cosine Fresnel holograms. A complex hologram is then formed by complex addition of the holograms, and twin-image rejection is predicted by computer simulations. An experimental verification of the technique by optical acquisition of the two holograms and subsequent reconstruction of the complex hologram digitally is reported. Three-dimensional image reconstruction without twin-image noise is demonstrated.     

Digital holography from shadowgraphic phase estimates

We show experimentally that the recently proposed iterative shadowgraphic method can be applied to in-line digital holography, provided a suitable regularization step is introduced. We show that the method correctly solves the "twin-image" problem using just two samples of the intensity field scattered by a phase object. Field retrieval accuracy is significantly improved when compared to a reconstruction obtained with the defocusing variation algorithms.     

Relationship between the fringe number of the scanning beam and the twin-image noise

A method of digital filtering for eliminating the twin-image noise of reconstructed images in optical scanning holography is proposed and demonstrated by the example of slit objects. The fringe number of the scanning beam in relation to the twin-image noise is investigated in detail. Some results of computer simulations are obtained. In the far field, the further object scanned by the scanning beam with fewer fringes has lower and flatter amplitude of the twin-image noise for reconstructed images. However, being independent of the fringe number the twin-image noise affects seriously on the reconstruction in the near field. So the twin-image noise should be considered in reconstruction in the near field.     

Complex-wave retrieval based on blind signal separation

In the process of the reconstruction of digital holography, the traditional methods of diffraction and filtration are commonly adopted to recover the original complex-wave signal. Influenced by twin-image and zero-order terms, the above-mentioned methods, however, either limit the field of vision or result in the loss of the amplitude and phase. A new method for complex-wave retrieval is presented, which is based on blind signal separation. Three frames of holograms are captured by a charge coupled device (CCD)camera to form an observation signal. The term containing only amplitude and phase of complex-wave is separated, by means of independent component analysis, from the observation signal, which effectively eliminates the zero-order term. Finally, the complex-wave retrieval of pure phase wavefront is achieved.Experimental results show that this method can better recover the amplitude and phase of the original complex-wave even when there is a frequency spectrum mixture in the hologram.     

Watermarking of three-dimensional objects by digital holography

We present an optical method for information watermarking of three-dimensional (3D) objects by digital holography. A hidden image is embedded by double phase encoding in a phase-shift digital hologram of the 3D object. We decode the watermarked hologram to reconstruct the hidden image and the 3D object. We use either the entire hologram or a part of it to decode the hidden image. Experiments are presented to illustrate the ability to recover both the 3D object and the decoded hidden image. Digital holograms of the 3D object are obtained by optical experiments. The watermarking process, 3D object reconstruction, and hidden image recovery are performed digitally. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of 3D object watermarking by use of a phase encoding technique and digital holography.     

基于液晶空间光调制器的全息显示

在传统的纯相位全息显示系统中, 一般基于快速傅里叶变换(FFT)算法来计算相位全息图, 在FFT的计算中需要遵循Nyquist采样定理, 因此, 重建图像的尺寸往往受限于空间光调制器的固定采样率. 这个限制可以通过卷积算法或者两步菲涅耳衍射算法来解决, 但是需要使用多个FFT的计算, 导致计算量增大. 鉴于此, 提出了一种基于透镜的纯相位全息图计算方法. 在全息图的计算中, 通过透镜的成像原理建立一个采样率可变的虚拟全息面, 通过调节相应的距离参数使得在全息图的计算中可以任意调节原始图像的采样率, 摆脱了传统方法中液晶空间光调制器带宽积对重建图像尺寸的限制, 并且这种算法只需使用一次FFT就能达到变采样率的衍射计算, 大幅提高了全息图的计算速度. 数值模拟及光学实验结果证明了此方法可以在全息显示光学系统中清晰地重建不同尺寸的图像. 同时该系统可以有效地消除由空间光调制器的像素化结构带来的零级衍射.     

Fast Computation of Fresnel Holograms Employing Difference

We propose an approximation method that can calculate the Fresnel hologram 16 times faster than the conventional method. To compute the hologram, an object is assumed to be a collection of self-illuminated points and the fringes from each object point are superposed. The distance between object point and sampling point on the hologram is used to obtain the phase of the light. Since a sampled hologram usually has small pixel intervals, the difference of the distance values between adjacent pixels is also small and its n-th order difference can be assumed to be constant. Therefore, the distance value at a certain pixel can be obtained from its neighbor with simple additions. The distance error can be reduced less that one wavelength with practical parameters. A hologram, which has a horizontal parallax only, 1.3 Mega-pixels and 1,000 object points, can be calculated in less than one second with a personal computer.     

Multiplexed phase-conjugate holographic data storage with a buffer hologram

We describe and demonstrate a volume holographic storage system in which a phase-conjugate object beam is reconstructed by the same reference beam that was used for recording. An intermediate hologram is used as a temporary buffer, recorded with its own reference beam and the data-bearing object beam. Reading this buffer hologram with the phase conjugate of its reference beam reconstructs the phase conjugate of the object beam, which can then be recorded into the desired volume hologram for long-term storage. This method combines the immunity to lens aberrations provided by phase-conjugate readout with the simplicity of using the same multiplexed reference beam for both recording and readout. Only a single pair of phase-conjugate reference beams is required. Experimental results are shown with a single LiNbO(3):Fe crystal used as both buffer and storage holograms and a self-pumped phase-conjugate mirror in BaTiO(3) that provides the pair of phase-conjugate reference beams.     

Enhancement on the generation of sampled phase-only holograms

Past research has demonstrated that if the intensity image of an object is uniformly down-sampled and converted into a Fresnel hologram, the phase component alone will be sufficient to reconstruct the source image. However,due to down-sampling, the edge and line patterns are degraded heavily. In this Letter, we propose an enhancement on the parent method by incorporating an adaptive down-sampling lattice. A hologram generated with our proposed method, which is referred to as the edge-enhanced sampled phase-only hologram, preserves favorable visual quality on both the shaded regions as well as the edge patterns of the object image.     

Real-time optical reconstruction of the diffused 3D object using phase information calculated by Continuous Wavelet Transform

We propose the real time optical reconstruction of a three-dimensional (3D) object from a digitally recorded hologram. Phase distribution of the recorded hologram is numerically calculated by 1-dimensional Continuous Wavelet Transform (1D-CWT) for digital reconstruction with phase only information. Also, the phase distribution of 1D-CWT transferred to the spatial light modulator (SLM) is used to obtain optically reconstructed image. It is observed that an efficient real-time analysis can be achieved, if phase of 1D-CWT is used. In the same time, optically reconstructed 3D objects obtained by only phase information are about three times brighter than bleached hologram intensity's. So the minimum power loss can be obtained. Numerical and experimental results are presented.     

Characterization of axially tilted fibres utilizing a single-shot interference pattern

We proposed a method to solve the problem of extracting meaningful phase information for a single-shot interference pattern taken for an axially tilted fibre sample. Conventionally such interference patterns can be not evaluated with appropriate accuracy. Here, such an interference pattern is considered to be a special hologram since it contains information about light propagated through a laterally fixed sample located at different axial planes. Thus, part of the test object in such a hologram is in focus and the other parts are out of focus. The proposed method can be considered as two complementary steps. In the first step the complex amplitude across the hologram plane is recovered using an adaptive spatial carrier frequency method. This is followed by the second step where the complex amplitude is numerically propagated within a given volume. Thus, planes where the test object is in focus are defined. Consequently, the phase distributions corresponding to all of these planes are together stitched. Thus a complete focus phase map for the fiber sample under test is obtained. From the obtained phase map the two dimensions refractive and the two dimensions birefringence of isotactic polypropylene fibre were calculated.     

Phase coding in iterative synthesis of computer-generated holograms

A new method is investigated for phase-only hologram synthesis. The method combines iterative calculation of the hologram phase function with the coding of the amplitude-phase characteristics of the complex transmission function into phase characteristics. The results of computational experiments are presented. The phase masks and reconstructed object images are also presented.     

通过保留相位进行全息图信息压缩的方法

从全息图的特点出发,研究了全息图的记录和再现原理,提出了一种对离轴菲涅耳全息图信息压缩的方法。对全息图进行傅里叶变换,滤除零级噪声及物光波的共轭波前,仅仅保留物光波的相位信息,而后以采用较低的采样频率对全息图重新抽样,从而大大减少了数字全息图的信息冗余。压缩后的全息图也可以获得良好像质的再现像。理论和实验均证明了该方法的可行性,为全息图的信息存贮与传输提供一条新的途径。     

Digital spatially incoherent Fresnel holography

We present a new method for recording digital holograms under incoherent illumination. Light is reflected from a 3D object, propagates through a diffractive optical element (DOE), and is recorded by a digital camera. Three holograms are recorded sequentially, each for a different phase factor of the DOE. The three holograms are superposed in the computer, such that the result is a complex-valued Fresnel hologram. When this hologram is reconstructed in the computer, the 3D properties of the object are revealed.     

余弦二值编码纯相位全息图的数字微镜器件显示

分析了采用错误减算法的迭代过程,在已知物波函数傅里叶谱的振幅和物波函数振幅的情况下恢复出纯相位的物波函数,最大限度地保留物波的振幅及相位信息.提出采用余弦二值编码生成二值全息图,即全息图的透射率函数取0或1.二值全息图通过数字微镜器件全息显示系统进行了重构显示,重构效果很好.理论分析了数字微镜器件的衍射效率,表明其最大衍射效率仅和微镜之间的间隔尺寸与微镜边长之比有关.余弦二值编码方法从理论上消除了零级衍射,可以制作像素较多的全息图.     

位相恢复法重现软X射线同轴全息图

在物平面和全息平面上分别施加限制条件,实现了同轴全息图的位相恢复重现,基本消除了孪生像的干扰。提出了一种软Ｘ射线同轴全息实时成像的方案     

Three-dimensional displays using computer-generated holograms

A hologram of a three-dimensional object is synthesized by a computer using the technique of holographic stereograms. A sequence of perspective views of an object is calculated and their Fourier transform holograms are synthesized by a computer. Each hologram is arranged in the order of the view points to produce the final composite hologram. The experimental reconstruction of the three-dimensional object can be successfully performed.     

Digital off-axis holography without zero-order diffraction via phase manipulation

By means of manipulating the phase information of the object beam in an off-axis digital holographic setup, we show that it is possible to fully eliminate the zero-order diffraction (ZOD) from numerically reconstructed holograms. Two different approaches are presented. In the first method, we introduce a ground glass on the object path beam to provide a random phase illumination. The subtraction between two holograms recorded with different positions of the ground glass yields a ZOD free hologram. In the second approach, a piece of window glass inserted on the path of the object beam produces a constant phase shift. The subtraction of two holograms, one recorded with and one without window glass generates a new hologram whose numerical reconstruction is ZOD free. Theoretical models and experimental results are shown to validate our proposals. They show that the proposed methods totally remove the ZOD without ruining the object information.     

Effect of intensity quantization level in parallel phase-shifting digital holography

Parallel phase-shifting digital holography (PPSDH) enables the instantaneous recording of three-dimensional fields. The three-dimensional field can be reconstructed using a computer by numerical scalar wave propagation. In PPSDH, we record a space-division multiplexed hologram that includes the required phase retardation in the spatial distribution of the reference wave and then interpolate the data at blanked pixels for each phase retardation to obtain the complex amplitude distribution of an object wave. The recorded quality of the multiplexed hologram influences the reconstruction quality. In this study, we investigate the effect of the intensity quantization of a multiplexed hologram on the reconstruction quality. We compare the influence of intensity quantization in PPSDH with that in the conventional phase-shifting method. Random noise is also added to the multiplexed hologram. The required intensity quantization level is helpful for selecting a digital image sensor.