title: Spatial information transmission using axial temporal coherence coding.
abstract: We present an approach that can be used for transmission of information through space-limited systems or for superresolution. The spatial information is coded with different axial temporal coherence by interfering every spatial region in the input with the same region, but with a certain known delay in the longitudinal axis. Every spatial region has different delay. After mixing all of the spatial information, it is transmitted through the space-limited system. At the detection the information is passed through a similar interference setup containing certain axial delay. By temporally scanning along the longitudinal axis, each time a different spatial region that was coded with the corresponding axial delay is reconstructed. To allow coding of different spatial regions with different and small axial delays, we use a thermal light source that has very short coherence length. We include experimental validation of the presented approach.
authors.affiliation: AIDO, Technological Institute of Optics, Colour and Imaging, C/. Nicolas Copernico, Paterna, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Micó
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sylman
authors.forename: Zeev
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zalevsky