Solution to the Twin Image Problem in Holography

Journal Article · Fri Jun 08 04:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.98.233901· OSTI ID:20951467

Latychevskaia, Tatiana; Fink, Hans-Werner ^[1]

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1. Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich (Switzerland)

While holography truly constitutes an ingenious concept, ever since its invention by Gabor it has been troubled by the so-called twin-image problem limiting the information that can be obtained from a holographic record. For symmetry reasons there are always two images appearing in the reconstruction of a hologram and the unwanted out of focus twin-image obscures the object. Here we show a universal method of reconstructing a hologram completely free of twin-image disturbances while no assumptions about absorbing or phase shifting properties of the object need to be imposed. Thus, truthful amplitude and phase distributions are retrieved.

• OSTI ID: 20951467
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 98; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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