title: Digital holographic microscopy with reduced spatial coherence for three-dimensional particle flow analysis.
abstract: We investigate the use of a digital holographic microscope working in partially coherent illumination to study in three dimensions a micrometer-size particle flow. The phenomenon under investigation rapidly varies in such a way that it is necessary to record, for every camera frame, the complete holographic information for further processing. For this purpose, we implement the Fourier-transform method for optical amplitude extraction. The suspension of particles is flowing in a split-flow lateral-transport thin separation cell that is usually used to separate the species by their sizes. Details of the optical implementation are provided. Examples of reconstructed images of different particle sizes are shown, and a particle-velocity measurement technique that is based on the blurred holographic image is exploited.
authors.affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Chimie Physique CP 165-62, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, B1050 Brussels, Belgium. frdubois@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: Natacha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Callens
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yourassowsky
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoyos
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kurowski
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Monnom