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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Microscopy
    • Image Reconstruction

    Background:

    • Lensless microscopy offers potential for high-resolution imaging over large fields of view.
    • Phase retrieval techniques are crucial for recovering lost phase information from intensity-only measurements.
    • Traditional methods often require mechanical scanning, limiting speed and increasing complexity.

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    • To develop a mask-modulated lensless imaging platform.
    • To achieve high-resolution and wide field-of-view imaging without mechanical scanning.
    • To recover complex-valued object images from intensity measurements.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a mask-modulated lensless imaging setup with the object sandwiched between a coded mask and an image sensor.
    • Employed an LED array for angle-varied illumination, projecting translated structured patterns.
    • Applied a regularized ptychographic iterative engine with reciprocal space up-sampling for image reconstruction.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully recovered complex-valued object images with enhanced resolution and quality compared to prior methods.
    • Demonstrated a lensless imaging platform capable of wide field-of-view acquisition.
    • Validated the effectiveness of translated structured illumination and iterative reconstruction.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed mask-modulated lensless imaging platform provides a cost-effective solution for high-resolution, wide field-of-view imaging.
    • Eliminating mechanical scanning simplifies the system and improves efficiency.
    • This approach advances ptychographic imaging capabilities.