Abstract

Time-averaged holography has been using photo-emulsions (early stage) and digital photo-sensitive arrays (later) to record holograms. We extend the recording possibilities by utilizing a photon-counting camera, and we further investigate the possibility of obtaining accurate hologram reconstructions in rather severe experimental conditions. To achieve this, we derived an expression for fringe function comprising the main parameters affecting the hologram recording. Influence of the main parameters, namely the exposure time and the number of averaged holograms, is analyzed by simulations and experiments. It is demonstrated that taking long exposure times can be avoided by averaging over many holograms with the exposure times much shorter than the vibration cycle. Conditions in which signal-to-noise ratio in reconstructed holograms can be substantially increased are provided.

© 2015 Optical Society of America

Time-averaged digital holography

Pascal Picart, Julien Leval, Denis Mounier, and Samuel Gougeon
Opt. Lett. 28(20) 1900-1902 (2003)

Digital holography at light levels below noise using a photon-counting approach

Nazif Demoli, Hrvoje Skenderović, and Mario Stipčević
Opt. Lett. 39(17) 5010-5013 (2014)

Effective procedure for determination of unknown vibration frequency and phase using time-averaged digital holography

Mario Stipčević, Nazif Demoli, Hrvoje Skenderović, Martin Lončarić, Anton Radman, Jadranko Gladić, and Davorin Lovrić
Opt. Express 25(9) 10241-10254 (2017)

Photon-counting digital holography under ultraweak illumination

Masaki Yamamoto, Hirotsugu Yamamoto, and Yoshio Hayasaki
Opt. Lett. 34(7) 1081-1083 (2009)

Low photon count based digital holography for quadratic phase cryptography

Inbarasan Muniraj, Changliang Guo, Ra’ed Malallah, James P. Ryle, John J. Healy, Byung-Geun Lee, and John T. Sheridan
Opt. Lett. 42(14) 2774-2777 (2017)