FOURIER-TRANSFORM HOLOGRAPHY BY PSEUDO-RANDOM PHASE SHIFTING

摘要

A phase mask comprised of a rectangular array of phase shifting areas arranged in a pseudo-random pattern is illuminated with a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The array of pseudo-randomly phase shifted beams is focused on a Fourier transform plane on which the power spectrum of the beams distributes in two orthogonal directions from its center maxima. The phase shifting areas are arranged in such a manner that there is an approximately equal number of phase shifts for each of the different phase shifting areas with a constant phase relation between orthogonally adjacent phase shifting areas. The center maxima of the spectrum is confined to a rectangular-shaped area and uniformly distributed by suitably selecting the number of different phase shifts. Coherent noise on the reconstructed image is effectively eliminated.