Abstract

The purpose of this work is to provide a theoretically grounded assessment on the field of view and bandwidth of a lensless holographic setup. Indeed, while previous works have presented results with super-resolution and field-of-view extrapolation, there are no well-established rules to determine them. We show that the theoretical field of view can be large with a spatial-frequency bandwidth only limited by the wavelength, leading to an unthinkable number of degrees of freedom. To keep a realistic field of view and bandwidth, we propose several practical bounds based on a few setup properties, namely, the noise level and spatiotemporal coherence of the source.

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