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    Area of Science:

    • Optics and Photonics
    • Digital Holography
    • Imaging Science

    Background:

    • Traditional holographic imaging often requires coherent light sources, limiting applications.
    • Incoherent digital holography (IDH) offers potential for broader use but faces challenges in reconstruction quality.
    • Self-interference incoherent digital holography (SIDH) is an advanced IDH technique.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a single-shot incoherent holographic imaging technique.
    • To improve the quality of holographic reconstruction using incoherent illumination.
    • To demonstrate the feasibility of incoherent single-shot off-axis SIDH for 3D imaging.

    Main Methods:

    • A modified SIDH optical configuration with a slightly tilted plane mirror was employed.
    • The limited temporal coherence of the illumination resulted in a guide-star hologram with a Gaussian envelope of elliptical ring shape.
    • Reconstruction was performed using cross-correlation with the guide-star hologram.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed method achieved single-shot incoherent holographic imaging.
    • The guide-star hologram exhibited a distinct Gaussian envelope of elliptical ring shape due to limited coherence.
    • Cross-correlation reconstruction yielded superior image quality compared to conventional propagation methods.
    • Experimental verification confirmed the successful implementation of incoherent hologram formation and 3D reconstruction.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed single-shot off-axis SIDH technique enables high-quality incoherent holographic imaging.
    • The cross-correlation method effectively reconstructs holograms formed under limited coherence.
    • This advancement broadens the applicability of digital holography in incoherent imaging scenarios.