Single-exposure digital holography by a generalized wave-splitting phase-shifting method

A single-exposure generalized phase-shifting digital holography based on a wave-splitting method. A phase-encoded reference wave is used for phase-shifting. Using the known amplitude and phase distributions of the reference wave, the fully complex amplitude of the object wave is obtained. The proposed method requires not devised optical systems but ordinary imaging devices, such as CCD cameras. A preliminary experimental results with a spherical wave and a random phase wave as reference waves are given to confirm the proposed method.