Speckle Reduction in Hologram Generation Based on Spherical Waves Synthesis Using Low-Coherence Digital Holography

Abstract

A speckle reduction method based on a spherical waves synthesis with low-coherence digital holography for hologram generation is proposed. An object information is experimentally obtained from a number of recorded low-coherence digital holograms. A hologram is generated by synthesizing the fields of spherical waves with the obtained information. The performance of the proposed method as hologram generation from a distribution contained spike noises like speckles is confirmed. The image quality is evaluated by the speckle contrast of the reconstructed image.