Improved tomographic imaging of wavelength scanning digital holographic microscopy by use of digital spectral shaping.

The technique of wavelength scanning digital holographic microscopy (WSDHM) is improved by use of a digital spectral shaping method which is used to suppress the sidelobes of the amplitude modulation function in WSDHM for non-Gaussian-shaped source spectra. Spurious structures caused by sidelobes can be eliminated in tomographic imaging and the performance of the tomographic system greatly improved. Detailed theoretical analysis is given. Both simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the idea.