Single-shot phase-shifting image-plane digital holography with tri-focal Fibonacci-Billet split lens.

Abstract

Phase-shifting holography has been widely applied in the field of non-destructive testing and interference imaging. Compared to the previous single-shot phase-shifting holography, here tri-focal Fibonacci-Billet split lens was introduced into Mach-Zehnder interferometer, in which the upper half of the Fibonacci-Billet split lens can realize three phase-locking copies of the planar reference wave and the lower half is used to generate three identical copies of object. The interference pattern is recorded by a detector in one single exposure. The test object can be reconstructed by three-step phase-shifting interferometry. The corresponding experiment is carried out to verify the effectiveness of this method. With advantages of real-time reconstruction and amplitude-only diffraction lens, it is very useful for fast imaging and optical element detection.