Abstract

A ray-trace simulation of a type 1 light-field imager is used to show that resolutions significantly better than the lenslet scale can be deterministically reached in reconstructed images of isolated point-like sources. This is enabled by computationally projecting the system pupil onto the lenslet-array plane to better estimate the lenslet-plane-crossing locations through which the rays from a point source have passed on their way to the detector array. Improving light-field type 1 image resolution from the lenslet scale to the pixel scale can significantly enhance signal-to-noise ratios on faint point-like sources such as fluorescent microbes, making the technique of interest in, e.g., in situ microbial life searches in extreme environments.

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