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Title: PHASE RETRIEVAL FROM TWO DEFOCUSED IMAGES BY THE TRANSPORT OF INTENSITY EQUATION FORMALISM WITH FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:780679

The problem of phase retrieval from intensity measurements plays an important role in many fields of physical research, e.g. optics, electron and x-ray microscopy, crystallography, diffraction tomography and others. In practice the recorded images contain information only on the intensity distribution I(x,y) = {Psi}*{Psi} = {vert_bar}A{vert_bar}{sup 2} of the imaging wave function {Psi} = A*exp(-i{var_phi}) and the phase information {var_phi}(x,y) is usually lost. In general, the phase problem can be solved either by special holographic/interferometric methods, or by non-interferometric approaches based on intensity measurements in far Fraunhofer zone or in the Fresnel zone at two adjacent planes orthogonal to the optical axis. The latter approach uses the transport-of-intensity equation (TIE) formalism, introduced originally by Teague [1] and developed later in [2]. Applications of TIE to nonmagnetic materials and magnetic inductance mapping were successfully made in [3,4]. However, this approach still needs further improvement both in mathematics and in practical solutions, since the result is very sensitive to many experimental parameters.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-98CH10886
OSTI ID:
780679
Report Number(s):
BNL-68154; KC0201010; R&D Project: EST015NEEA; KC0201010; TRN: AH200121%%29
Resource Relation:
Conference: MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS 2001, LONG BEACH, CA (US), 08/05/2001--08/08/2001; Other Information: PBD: 5 Aug 2001
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English