Latychevskaia Tatiana, Fink Hans-Werner
Institute of Physics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Jun 8;98(23):233901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.233901. Epub 2007 Jun 4.
While holography truly constitutes an ingenious concept, ever since its invention by Gabor it has been troubled by the so-called twin-image problem limiting the information that can be obtained from a holographic record. For symmetry reasons there are always two images appearing in the reconstruction of a hologram and the unwanted out of focus twin-image obscures the object. Here we show a universal method of reconstructing a hologram completely free of twin-image disturbances while no assumptions about absorbing or phase shifting properties of the object need to be imposed. Thus, truthful amplitude and phase distributions are retrieved.
