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Wave-front reconstruction of optical disturbances using digital image processing

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posted on 2018-04-17, 10:51 authored by Paulo T. Fiadeiro
This thesis is concerned with the development of a practical digital image processing system for recording and subsequent reconstruction of the magnitude and phase of an optical wave-front arriving from a coherently illuminated object disturbance. Since the wave-fronts of concern are coherent, the magnitude and phase of such waves are generally independent functions in the sense that the knowledge of one is not sufficient to uniquely deduce the other. To uniquely reconstruct and characterize optical disturbances both the magnitude and phase are required. In general, all recording media respond only to light intensity and no difficulty is encountered in recording the intensity and therefore the magnitude, because it is the square root of the intensity. [Continues.]

Funding

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), grant ref. 8/92/B.

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  • Science

Department

  • Physics

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© P.T. Fiadeiro

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1995

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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