2006/10/09 by Tatiana Latychevskaia, Hans‐Werner Fink, Hans-Werner Fink · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques #Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena #Digital Holography and Microscopy #physics.class-ph #physics.data-an #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.98.233901
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 233901 (2007)
arxiv created 2006/10/09 · openalex publication_date 2007/06/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
While holography truly constitutes an ingenious concept, ever since its invention by Gabor it has been troubled by the so-called twin-image problem limiting the information that can be obtained from a holographic record. For symmetry reasons there are always two images appearing in the reconstruction of a hologram and the unwanted out of focus twin-image obscures the object. Here we show a universal method of reconstructing a hologram completely free of twin-image disturbances while no assumptions about absorbing or phase shifting properties of the object need to be imposed. Thus, truthful amplitude and phase distributions are retrieved.