title: Experimental demonstration of continuously variable optical encoding in a hybrid imaging system.
abstract: We demonstrate an experimental method to obtain a continuously variable hybrid imaging system that uses two generalized cubic phase masks, to enable real-time optimization of the trade between extended depth-of-field and noise gain. We obtain point-spread functions as a function of the rotation angle and show an example of optimization based on recovered image quality.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK.
authors.forename: Mads
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Demenikov
authors.forename: Gonzalo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Muyo
authors.forename: Andrew R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Harvey