Parallel Phase-shifting Digital Ghost Holography

TL;DR

This paper introduces a parallel phase-shifting method for digital ghost holography that enables complex amplitude reconstruction without increasing measurement count, using polarization optics to simultaneously acquire phase-shifted interferograms.

Contribution

The authors propose a novel parallel phase-shifting technique employing polarization beam splitters to measure multiple interferograms simultaneously, reducing measurement complexity in digital ghost holography.

Findings

Effective reconstruction of complex amplitude demonstrated experimentally.

Reduces measurement steps compared to traditional phase-shifting methods.

Enhances noise resistance and sensitivity in ghost holography applications.

Abstract

The ghost imaging (GI) technique, which has attracted attention as a highly sensitive and noise-resistant technique, employs a spatially modulated illuminating light and a single-pixel detector. Generally, the information acquired by GI is the transmittance or reflectance distribution of an object. A method has also been proposed to measure the complex amplitude by applying digital holography (DH) techniques. These methods irradiate phase-modulated illuminating lights onto an object, and the intensities of the interference lights between the lights interacting with the object and the reference light are measured. Then, the complex amplitude of the object light is reconstructed based on the correlation between the light intensities and the phase patterns. In DH-based GI, it is necessary to remove unwanted components from the interferogram by phase shifting, which requires more measurements than the conventional GI method. Thus, we propose a technique to reconstruct the complex amplitude in DH-based GI without increasing the number of measurements using parallel phase-shifting optics. In the proposed method, interferograms phase-shifted in steps of $\pi/2$ with waveplates are divided into four using polarization beam splitters (PBS), and their intensities are measured simultaneously. The object light component can be extracted from the intensities of these four interferograms. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method through experiments.