title: Violation of the Lagrange invariant in an optical imaging system.
abstract: The Lagrange invariant provides a basic description of an optical imaging system. Many important conclusions can be drawn from it. We discovered that the Lagrange invariant is violated in a self-interference holography system with particular characteristics. With a proof-of-principle system, we proved this violation both theoretically and experimentally. This finding enables future exciting possibilities in optical imaging.
authors.affiliation: Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, China.
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Shaoqun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D006696:Holography; D061848:Optical Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D055620:Optical Phenomena