Demodulation of noisy interferograms with rapid phase variations and amplitude fluctuations using a surrogate principle-based optimization method.

Abstract

This paper presents an optimization-based method for phase extraction from interferograms corrupted with noise, rapid phase variations, and localized amplitude fluctuations. In the proposed method, the phase retrieval problem is addresed by modeling a cost function using non-convex non-smooth total generalized variational regularization. Further, the surrogate principle is used to transform the cost function into convex form for convenient optimization framework. Simulation results demonstrate the performance of the method. We also show the experimental utility of the proposed method for onion cell imaging using digital holographic microscopy.