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Solution to the Twin Image Problem in Holography

Tatiana Latychevskaia and Hans-Werner Fink
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 233901 – Published 4 June 2007

Abstract

While holography truly constitutes an ingenious concept, ever since its invention by Gabor it has been troubled by the so-called twin-image problem limiting the information that can be obtained from a holographic record. For symmetry reasons there are always two images appearing in the reconstruction of a hologram and the unwanted out of focus twin-image obscures the object. Here we show a universal method of reconstructing a hologram completely free of twin-image disturbances while no assumptions about absorbing or phase shifting properties of the object need to be imposed. Thus, truthful amplitude and phase distributions are retrieved.

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  • Received 22 December 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.233901

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Tatiana Latychevskaia and Hans-Werner Fink

  • Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland

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Vol. 98, Iss. 23 — 8 June 2007

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