A method for optimally producing a holographic image using a Holographic Optical Element (HOE) and the HOE meant for controlling directions and divergences of light beams to impart system compactness. The system uses concave and convex lenses and other beam expanding, splitting, modulating and combining optics for realization of compactness and high throughput. The thin laser beam is split using a holographic optical element and a conventional beam splitter. A neutral density filter adjusts the intensity of a reference beam to match the intensity of an object beam so that high quality digital holograms can be recorded. Effects of vibrations are minimized by the compact optical design, by anti-vibration mounts, by mounting all the opto-mechanical components on a single rigid platform and by enclosing the system. An electro-optical sensor array records holograms digitally and an algorithm numerically reconstructs and further quantifies the results using a personal computer/laptop/tablet etc.

This disclosure discloses a method of creating a three-dimensional image of a sample using snapshot optical tomography. The method includes generating a plurality of beams incident on the sample simultaneously, acquiring a field image at a plane not conjugate to the sample plane using off-axis digital holography, extracting amplitude data and phase data for the field image, restoring the sharpness by backpropagating the field image using the extracted amplitude and phase data, acquiring a background image, extracting amplitude data and phase data for the background image, and reconstructing a three-dimensional image of the sample with the backpropagated field image and the background image. The method also includes arranging more than one imaging chains to remove the missing angle artefacts in optical tomography. Also disclosed are systems for performing the method.

The present invention relates to an improved method for marker-free detection of a cell type of at least one cell in a medium using microfluidics and digital holographic microscopy, as well as a device, particular for carrying out the method.

A holographic imaging device and method realizes both a transmission type and a reflection type, and also realizes a long working distance wide field of view or ultra-high resolution. Object light emitted from an object, sequentially illuminated with parallel illumination light whose incident direction is changed, is recorded on a plurality of object light holograms for each incident direction using off-axis spherical wave reference light. The reference light is recorded on a reference light hologram using in-line spherical wave reference light being in-line with the object light. An object light wave hologram and its spatial frequency spectrum at the object position are generated for each incident direction using each hologram. A synthetic spectrum which occupies a wider frequency space is generated by matching each spectrum in the overlapping area, and a synthetic object light wave hologram with increased numerical aperture is obtained thereby.

An ultra high-resolution near infrared brain imager system includes a modular cap housing closely spaced multiple vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasersingle-photon avalanche photodiode array (VCSEL-SPAD) modules, each one of the VCSEL-SPAD modules including a linear VCSEL array and a SPAD detector.

The invention relates to an add-on imaging module for the off-axis recording of polarization coded waves, that might be connected to any polarization adapted interferometric system, and which incorporates the first polarization sensitive beam splitter, the first optical system of the module and the detector, wherein the first optical system of the module includes the first imaging system and the linear polarizer.

According to one aspect, the invention concerns an optical imaging device (20) for an object (OBJ) by off-axis holography comprising a light source (21) adapted for emitting an illumination wave (E.sub.I) on the object, in transmission or reflection, and an assembly formed by one or more thick Bragg gratings (22) for receiving a wave (E.sub.O) coming from the object thus illuminated and for deflecting a first component (E.sub.R) of the wave coming from the object, called the reference wave, and to allow a second component (E.sub.S) of the wave coming from the object, called the signal wave, to pass without deflection in such a way that the deflected reference wave presents predetermined deflection angles with respect to the non-deflected signal wave defined in two perpendicular planes. The imaging device according to the first aspect further comprises a two-dimensional detection device (23) for acquiring an interferogram resulting from the interference between said deflected reference wave and said signal wave and a computing unit for determining, from said interferogram, an amplitude and phase distribution of the signal wave in the plane of the object (hologram).

The present disclosure relates to improved holographic reconstruction device and a method. In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to improved holographic reconstruction device and method that can measure a digital hologram regardless of optical characteristics of an object to be measured, by an all-in-one type system integrating a transmissive system that measures an object transmitting light and a reflective system that measures an object reflecting light.

A system for making a holographic medium for use in generating light patterns for eye tracking includes a light source configured to provide light and a beam splitter configured to separate the light into a first portion of the light and a second portion of the light that is spatially separated from the first portion of the light. The system also includes a first set of optical elements configured to transmit the first portion of the light for providing a first wide-field beam onto an optically recordable medium and one or more diffractive optical elements configured to receive the second portion of the light and project a plurality of separate light patterns onto the optically recordable medium for forming the holographic medium.

The invention relates to an interferometric method, in which the light scattered by an object is imaged onto an electronic camera, wherein a sample light component is assigned to scattering sites on a sectional face in the interior of the object. This sample light component can be separated from the contributions of the other sample light components by processing of the camera image and leads to a sectional image. A particular advantage of the invention lies in the fact that multiple parallel sectional faces can be exposed sequentially at predetermined intervals from each other in the interior of the object. Such a sequence of sectional images can be used to calculate a solid model of the object.