Abstract-Terahertz in-line digital holography of dragonfly hindwing: amplitude and phase reconstruction at enhanced resolution by extrapolation

Lu Rong, Tatiana Latychevskaia, Dayong Wang, Xun Zhou, Haochong Huang, Zeyu Li, and Yunxin Wang  »View Author Affiliations http://8.18.37.105/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-22-14-17236

Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 14, pp. 17236-17245 (2014)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.017236

We report here on terahertz (THz) digital holography on a biological specimen. A continuous-wave (CW) THz in-line holographic setup was built based on a 2.52 THz CO₂ pumped THz laser and a pyroelectric array detector. We introduced novel statistical method of obtaining true intensity values for the pyroelectric array detector’s pixels. Absorption and phase-shifting images of a dragonfly’s hindwing were reconstructed simultaneously from single in-line hologram. Furthermore, we applied phase retrieval routines to eliminate twin image and enhanced the resolution of the reconstructions by hologram extrapolation beyond the detector area. The finest observed features are 35 μm width cross veins.

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