title: Transmission digital holographic microscopy based on a beam-splitter cube interferometer.
abstract: A new optical configuration for digital holographic microscopy is presented. Digital off-axis holograms are recorded by use of a single cube beam splitter in a nonconventional configuration to both split and combine a diverging spherical wavefront as it emerges from a single point source. Both the amplitude and the phase can then be reconstructed, yielding intensity and phase images with improved resolution. The novelty of the proposed configuration is its simplicity, minimal number of optical elements, insensitivity to vibration, and its inherent capability to compensate for the phase curvature that results from the illuminating wavefront in the case of microscopic samples.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798. ququ@siom.ac.cn
authors.forename: Weijuan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qu
authors.forename: Kallol
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: Chee Oi
authors.initials: CO
authors.lastname: Choo
authors.forename: Yingjie
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Anand
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Asundi
mesh_terms: D006696:Holography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008857:Microscopy, Interference / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055096:Optical Devices; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted