Abstract

Ptychography is a predominant non-interferometric technique to image large complex fields but with quite a narrow working spectrum, because diffraction measurements require dense array detection with an ultra-high dynamic range. Here we report a single-pixel ptychography technique that realizes non-interferometric and non-scanning complex-field imaging in a wide waveband, where 2D dense detector arrays are not available. A single-pixel detector is placed in the far field to record the DC-only component of the diffracted wavefront scattered from the target field, which is illuminated by a sequence of binary modulation patterns. This decreases the measurements’ dynamic range by several orders of magnitude. We employ an efficient single-pixel phase-retrieval algorithm to jointly recover the field’s 2D amplitude and phase maps from the 1D intensity-only measurement sequence. No a priori object information is needed in the recovery process. We validate the technique’s quantitative phase imaging nature using both calibrated phase objects and biological samples and demonstrate its wide working spectrum with both 488-nm visible light and 980-nm near-infrared light.

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