Coded aperture imaging with helico-conical beams
摘要
Interferenceless Coded Aperture Correlation Holography (I-COACH) has emerged as a powerful computational imaging technique for retrieving three-dimensional information from an object without requiring two-beam interference. In this study, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an I-COACH system employing a Helico-Conical Vortex (HCV) mask. The HCV mask carries orbital angular momentum and features a phase profile with non-separable dependence on both azimuthal and radial coordinates. It is generated by combining helical and conical phase functions, resulting in a spiral-shaped intensity distribution at the focal plane. We compare the performance of I-COACH with the HCV mask against other coded masks (CMs), including random lens, ring lens, spiral axicon, axicon, and spiral lens. Additionally, we evaluate image reconstruction using four widely adopted algorithms: non-linear reconstruction (NLR), Lucy-Richardson algorithm (LRA), Lucy-Richardson-Rosen algorithm (LRRA), and non-linear LRA (NL-LRA). Quantitative analysis is conducted using figures of merit such as entropy, root mean squared error (RMSE), structural similarity index measure (SSIM), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). The proposed approach holds promise for advancing incoherent holography and computational imaging applications.