We propose a three-dimensional holographic reconstruction procedure applicable with no a priori knowledge about the recording conditions enabling distortion-free three-dimensional object reconstruction.
We introduce a robust optimization method for flip-free distortion energies used, for example, in parametrization, deformation, and volume correspondence. This method can minimize a variety of distortion energies, such as the symmetric Dirichlet energy and our new symmetric gradient energy. We identify and exploit the special structure of distortion energies to employ an operator splitting technique, leading us to propose a novel Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm to deal with the non-convex, non-smooth nature of distortion energies. The scheme results in an efficient method where the global step involves a single matrix multiplication and the local steps are closed-form per-triangle/per-tetrahedron expressions that are highly parallelizable. The resulting general-purpose optimization algorithm exhibits robustness to flipped triangles and tetrahedra in initial data as well as during the optimization. We establish the convergence of our proposed algorithm under certain conditions and demonstrate applications to parametrization, deformation, and volume correspondence.
Using conventional refraction-based optical lens, it is challenging to achieve both high-resolution imaging and long-working-distance condition. To increase the numerical aperture of a lens, the working distance should be compensated, and vice versa. Here we propose and demonstrate a new concept in optical microscopy that can achieve both high-resolution imaging and long-working-distance conditions by utilising a scattering layer instead of refractive optics. When light passes through a scattering layer, it creates a unique interference pattern. To retrieve the complex amplitude image from the interference pattern without introducing a reference beam, we utilised a speckle-correlation scattering matrix method. This property enables holographic microscopy without any lens or external reference beam. Importantly, the proposed method allows high-resolution imaging with a long working distance beyond what a conventional objective lens can achieve. As an experimental verification, we imaged various microscopic samples and compared their performance with off-axis digital holographic microscopy.
We report experimental results on heterodyne holographic microscopy of subwavelength-sized gold particles. The apparatus uses continuous green laser illumination of the metal beads in a total internal reflection configuration for dark-field operation. Detection of the scattered light at the illumination wavelength on a charge-coupled device array detector enables 3D localization of brownian particles in water
Polarized light microscopy provides high contrast to birefringent specimen and is widely used as a diagnostic tool in pathology. However, polarization microscopy systems typically operate by analyzing images collected from two or more light paths in different states of polarization, which lead to relatively complex optical designs, high system costs or experienced technicians being required. Here, we present a deep learning-based holographic polarization microscope that is capable of obtaining quantitative birefringence retardance and orientation information of specimen from a phase recovered hologram, while only requiring the addition of one polarizer/analyzer pair to an existing holographic imaging system. Using a deep neural network, the reconstructed holographic images from a single state of polarization can be transformed into images equivalent to those captured using a single-shot computational polarized light microscope (SCPLM). Our analysis shows that a trained deep neural network can extract the birefringence information using both the sample specific morphological features as well as the holographic amplitude and phase distribution. To demonstrate the efficacy of this method, we tested it by imaging various birefringent samples including e.g., monosodium urate (MSU) and triamcinolone acetonide (TCA) crystals. Our method achieves similar results to SCPLM both qualitatively and quantitatively, and due to its simpler optical design and significantly larger field-of-view, this method has the potential to expand the access to polarization microscopy and its use for medical diagnosis in resource limited settings.
We demonstrate a gigapixel inline digital holographic microscopy using a consumer scanner. The consumer scanner can maximally scan an A4 size image (297mm x 210mm) with 4800 dpi (= 5.29 um), theoretically achieving a resolution of 56,144 x 39,698 = 2.22 gigapixels. The system using a consumer scanner has a simple structure, compared with synthetic aperture digital holography using a camera mounted on a two-dimensional moving stage. In this demonstration, we captured an inline hologram with 23,602 x 18,023 pixels (= 0.43 gigapixels). In addition, to accelerate the reconstruction time of the gigapixel hologram and decrease the amount of memory for the reconstruction, we applied the band-limited double-step Fresnel diffraction to the reconstruction.