Non-iterative reconstruction of interferenceless coded aperture correlation holography enabled high quality three-dimensional imaging

Abstract

Interferenceless coded aperture correlation holography (I-COACH) is a rapidly developing indirect three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique. However the ideal point spread function of imaging system is not obtained in most cases, the object hologram is usually correlated with the system response of a limited-size pinhole during the reconstruction process. As a result, the quality of reconstructed images is contaminated by noise. In this paper, the system response of a limited-size pinhole is regarded as the convolution of the pinhole (as an object) intensity and the ideal point spread function of I-COACH, a mathematical analysis of the background noise is conducted and a general high-quality reconstruction mathematic model of I-COACH system is derived when a limited-size pinhole is used to record point spread hologram, in which the reconstructions and noise is separated. Then a non-iterative cross-correlation reconstruction algorithm has been developed here to achieve high-quality 3D reconstruction. The proposed method has been implemented on a regular I-COACH system in both transmission as well as reflection illumination modes to demonstrate the imaging ability of our method. The experimental results show that high quality reconstructions can be achieved by our proposal with a single-exposure object hologram.