Optimization of Phase Noise in Digital Holographic Microscopy

A phase noise optimizing method was proposed in this paper to improve the imaging quality of digital microscopic holography (DHM). In this method, bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) was utilized to decompose the digital hologram. According to the principle of decomposition, the characteristics of first order intrinsic mode function (IMF1) are close to the gray value of ideal interference fringes. Therefore, after using BEMD method the digital hologram was optimized with enhanced interference fringes, from which phase image with reduced noise can be retrieved. The validity of the proposed method on noise reduction was verified by experimental results on a nano-step.