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Title: Single-frame transmission and phase imaging using off-axis holography with undetected photons

Authors: Emma Pearce (1 and 2), Osian Wolley (1), Simon P. Mekhail (1), Thomas Gregory (1), Nathan R. Gemmell (2), Rupert F. Oulton (2), Alex S. Clark (3), Chris C. Phillips (2), Miles J. Padgett (1) ((1) School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (2) Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3) Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Abstract: Imaging with undetected photons relies upon nonlinear interferometry to extract the spatial image from an infrared probe beam and reveal it in the interference pattern of an easier-to-detect visible beam. Typically, the transmission and phase images are extracted using phase-shifting techniques and combining interferograms from multiple frames. Here we show that off-axis digital holography enables reconstruction of both transmission and phase images at the infrared wavelength from a single interferogram, and hence a single frame, recorded in the visible. This eliminates the need for phase stepping and multiple acquisitions, thereby greatly reducing total measurement time for imaging with long acquisition times at low flux or enabling video-rate imaging at higher flux. With this single-frame acquisition technique, we are able to reconstruct transmission images of an object in the infrared beam with a signal-to-noise ratio of $1.78\,\pm\,0.06$ at 10 frames per second, and record a dynamic scene in the infrared beam at 33 frames per second.
Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, references added to page 1
Subjects: Optics (physics.optics); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2403.13389 [physics.optics]
  (or arXiv:2403.13389v2 [physics.optics] for this version)

Submission history

From: Emma Pearce [view email]
[v1] Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:30:13 GMT (7597kb,D)
[v2] Mon, 29 Apr 2024 08:52:42 GMT (7597kb,D)

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