Abstract

Wavefield drift or wobbling occurs quite often in coherent scanning systems such as satellite laser communication, laser pointing of high-power lasers, or microscopy. The uncertainty of wavefront positions might result in blurred images or large measurement errors. Here we propose an iterative approach that can retrieve both the drift positions and complex-valued distribution of the wavefield from a ptychographic diffraction intensity dataset. We demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the method in numerical simulation and an optical experiment. The method requires little a priori knowledge and thus would open up new opportunities in many fields.

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