High-speed 3D imaging by parallel phase-shifting digital holography

Abstract

As a high-speed three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique, parallel phase-shifting digital holography is presented. This technique records a single hologram of an object with an image sensor having a phase-shift array device and reconstructs the instantaneous 3D image of the object with a computer. In this technique, a single hologram in which the multiple holograms required for phase-shifting digital holography are multiplexed by using space-division multiplexing technique pixel by pixel. Also, we present a high-speed parallel phase-shifting digital holography system. The system consists of an interferometer, a continuous-wave laser, and a high-speed polarization imaging camera. Motion pictures of dynamic phenomena at the rate of up to 1,000,000 frames per second have been achieved by the high-speed system.