Optical Transfer Function Reconstruction in Incoherent Fourier Ptychography**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 61205144, the Research Project of National University of Defense Technology under Grant No JC13-07-01, and the Key Laboratory of High Power Laser and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Abstract

An optical transfer function (OTF) reconstruction model is first embedded into incoherent Fourier ptychography (IFP). The leading result is a proposed algorithm that can recover both the super-resolution image and the OTF of an imaging system with unknown aberrations simultaneously. This model overcomes the difficult problem of OTF estimation that the previous IFP faces. The effectiveness of this algorithm is demonstrated by numerical simulations, and the superior reconstruction is presented. We believe that the reported algorithm can extend the original IFP for more complex conditions and may provide a solution by using structured light for characterization of optical systems' aberrations.