High Bandwidth‐Utilization Digital Holographic Multiplexing: An Approach Using Kramers–Kronig Relations

Abstract

Modern quantitative optical imaging is developing toward high throughput and powerful data processing capabilities. Holography is a powerful technique to characterize quantitative phase delays introduced by light–matter interactions. The spatial bandwidth utilization of imaging sensors in digital holography can be expanded via an off‐axis multiplexing technique, which is a powerful tool for high‐throughput quantitative optical imaging. However, the highest bandwidth utilization of sensor is limited at 58.9% to keep the signal spectra away from the zeroth spectra. Kramers–Kronig relation is introduced into the off‐axis multiplexing technology to allow for the overlapping between the signal spectra and unwanted spectra. The bandwidth utilization of sensor in a diffraction‐limited optical system can reach 78.5% in one hologram. It opens a new route to multiplexing quantitative optical imaging and helps to improve the performance of iterative‐free and constraint‐free modern optical microscopes in various spectral regimes.

Keywords

• high bandwidth-utilization
• holographic multiplexing
• quantitative phase