Reconstruction of spatial, phase, and coherence properties of light.
Image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as quantum-state reconstruction. An efficient method based on the maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed for acquiring information from blurred intensity measurements affected by noise. Connections with incoherent-image restoration are pointed out. The feasibility of the method is demonstrated numerically. Spatial and correlation details significantly below the diffraction limit are revealed in the reconstructed pattern.
Jezek
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Department of Optics, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. jezek@optics.upol.cz
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