Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Image formation in terms of the transport equation

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

A scheme for recovering phase using irradiance data alone, without interferometric techniques, is developed using the transport equations for phase and irradiance. For the case of one transverse dimension a general solution, for an arbitrary irradiance distribution, of the transport equation for the optical phase is already given by an application of the divergence theorem. Numerical simulation results are given that indicate that the phase-recovery scheme works well even in the presence of large pupil-plane aberrations if the signal-to-noise ratio is sufficiently high. In particular, pupil-plane phase aberrations may be determined from irradiance measurements in two planes that are near the image plane.

© 1985 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Partially coherent fields, the transport-of-intensity equation, and phase uniqueness

T. E. Gureyev, A. Roberts, and K. A. Nugent
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 12(9) 1942-1946 (1995)

Fast iterative solution to exact equations for the two-dimensional phase-retrieval problem

K. Chalasinska-Macukow and H. H. Arsenault
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2(1) 46-50 (1985)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (16)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (11)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved