title: Complex field recovering from in-line digital holography.
abstract: This Letter presents an in-line digital holographic system that can provide full amplitude and phase reconstruction without any reference wave, with a single recorded hologram. This major capability is obtained by using a coherent mixing between several object waves generated by a pure spatial phase modulation. A scaling parameter permits us to reconstruct the phase without any unwrapping. The capability of the method to provide quantitative phase contrast measurement and numerical refocusing is demonstrated through experimental results.
authors.affiliation: LUNAM Université, Université du Maine, CNRS UMR 6613, LAUM, Le Mans, France. pascal.picart@univ‑lemans.fr
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Picart
authors.forename: Mokrane
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Malek