Phase reconstruction by the weighted least action principle
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Phase reconstruction by the weighted least action principle
The problem of phase reconstruction from intensity is considered in the paraxial geometrical optics regime. The data consist of intensity measurements on two planes orthogonal to the direction of propagation. A new variational principle is used to find the ray mapping between the planes. The mapping is found by minimizing an appropriate function. The minimization process involves a nonlinear pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1464-4258,1741-3567
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/8/3/009