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Intensity-based holographic imaging via space-domain Kramers–Kronig relations

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Holography is a powerful tool to record waves without loss of information that has benefited optical, X-ray and electronic imaging applications by quantifying phase delays induced by light–matter interactions. However, holographic imaging is technically demanding in that it generally requires an interferometric setup, a coherent source and long-term stability. Here, we present holographic imaging in which a phase image is obtained directly from a single intensity measurement in oblique illumination. Our approach is based on space-domain Kramers–Kronig relations that transform the spatial variation in intensity to the spatial variation in phase. We demonstrate two-dimensional holographic imaging and three-dimensional refractive index tomography of microscopic objects and biological specimens from intensity images measured with an optical microscope and illumination control. The proposed method does not require iterative processes nor strict constraints and opens up a new approach to non-interferometric holographic imaging in various spectral regimes.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of the proposed method.
Fig. 2: Experimental demonstrations with two-dimensional samples.
Fig. 3: Optical diffraction tomography with a 5 μm polystyrene bead.
Fig. 4: RI tomogram of a trinucleated A549 cell.
Fig. 5: Time-lapse tomographic imaging of an A549 cell.

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Acknowledgements

This work is supported by KAIST Up programme, the BK21+ programme, Tomocube, Inc. and the National Research Foundation of Korea (2017M3C1A3013923, 2015R1A3A2066550, 2018K000396).

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Baek, Y., Park, Y. Intensity-based holographic imaging via space-domain Kramers–Kronig relations. Nat. Photonics 15, 354–360 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00760-8

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