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View SchemaSolution to the twin image problem in holography
| Authors | Tatiana Latychevskaia, Hans-Werner Fink |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0610048 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0610048 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.233901 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 233901 (2007) |
Abstract
While the invention of holography by Dennis Gabor truly constitutes an ingenious concept, it has ever since been troubled by the so called twin image problem limiting the information that can be obtained from a holographic record. Due to symmetry reasons there are always two images appearing in the reconstruction process. Thus, the reconstructed object is obscured by its unwanted out of focus twin image. Especially for emission electron as well as for x- and gamma-ray holography, where the source-object distances are small, the reconstructed images of atoms are very close to their twin images from which they can hardly be distinguished. In some particular instances only, experimental efforts could remove the twin images. More recently, numerical methods to diminish the effect of the twin image have been proposed but are limited to purely absorbing objects failing to account for phase shifts caused by the object. Here we show a universal method to reconstruct a hologram completely free of twin images disturbance while no assumptions about the object need to be imposed. Both, amplitude and true phase distributions are retrieved without distortion.
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