Some imaging properties of an optical heterodyne scanning image processor

Abstract

We present some of the imaging properties of an optical heterodyne scanning image processor. The image processor is a two-pupil optical system capably of three-dimensional (3-D) imaging coherently or incoherently, depending on the detection scheme used. We will then discuss optical scanning holography (OSH) through the development of the two-pupil optical heterodyne scanning image processor. Last, we illustrate some important 3-D example in OSH and show that two reconstructions can be obtained corresponding to the real and pseudoscopic reconstructions of a conventional hologram.