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¹Department of Bioengineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

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We developed snapshot hyperspectral light field tomography (Hyper-LIFT) for efficient 5D data capture. This novel method enables rapid imaging of spectral volumetric scenes in a single snapshot.

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Area of Science:

Optics and Photonics
Biomedical Imaging
Computational Imaging

Background:

Hyperspectral imaging captures light intensity across numerous spectral bands.
Light field imaging records directional light information, enabling 3D reconstruction.
Current methods for combining these modalities are often slow or complex.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel, efficient method for capturing 5D hyperspectral light field data in a single snapshot.
To enable simultaneous acquisition of spatial, angular, and spectral information.
To demonstrate the capability for imaging spectral volumetric scenes.

Main Methods:

Snapshot hyperspectral light field tomography (Hyper-LIFT) utilizes a Dove prism array and a cylindrical lens array.
Multi-angled 1D en face projections are acquired simultaneously.
Projections are dispersed to measure spectra in parallel using a 2D image sensor.

Main Results:

The Hyper-LIFT system captures a 5D data cube (270x270x4x4x360 voxels) within a single snapshot.
Demonstrated high efficiency in recording the 5D plenoptic function.
Successfully imaged spectral volumetric scenes.

Conclusions:

Hyper-LIFT offers a significant advancement in capturing complex 5D spectral-angular-spatial data.
The method's efficiency makes it suitable for dynamic spectral volumetric imaging.
This technique opens new possibilities in various scientific and imaging applications.