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Digital Holography (off-axis and in-line intensity holograms) L1-071

Coherent ImagingInterferometric complex-field recoveryδ=3 · standardL_DAG = 3.3📋 Stub — not mineable
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Forward model E

A coherent reference wave R interferes with the object wave O at the sensor, yielding intensity I = |O|^2 + |R|^2 + O*R + OR*. In off-axis holography a tilted reference shifts the object term to an isolated Fourier quadrant; in in-line holography (phase-shifting or Gabor) a sequence of phase-shifted reference states isolates the complex object term algebraically.

L-DAG

L.modulation.reference -> L.add_coherent -> L.modulus_squared -> int.spatial
L.modulation.referenceL.add_coherentL.modulus_squaredint.spatial

Well-posedness W

Existence:
true
Uniqueness:
true
Stability:
conditional
κ:
1200

Off-axis single-shot: ill-posed without spatial bandwidth separation (tilt must exceed twice max object spatial frequency). In-line phase-shifting: well-posed with N >= 3 phase steps; stability dominated by reference-phase calibration error and wavelength drift.

Solvability C

Solver class:
Fourier demodulation (off-axis), phase-shifting algorithm (in-line), Gerchberg-Saxton, TV-ADMM for joint denoising, deep-hologram (DH-Net)
Convergence rate q:
2
Complexity:
O(H * W * log(H*W)) per frame (2D FFT)

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