Lensless microscopy is an emerging imaging modality that overcomes the inherent limitation of conventional lens-based optics, especially in terms of imaging throughput, functionality, and cost-effectiveness. Pixel super-resolution phase retrieval serves as the key underlying technique for reconstructing high-resolution holographic images from the raw measurements. In this talk, we revisit lensless microscopy from a computational imaging perspective. A unified mathematical framework is established and the encoding and decoding mechanisms of the phase and subpixel information are analyzed. Regularization and Nesterov’s momentum techniques are introduced to speed up the data acquisition and reconstruction procedures, respectively. The proposed algorithms are verified through a proof-of-concept lensless on-chip microscope. We experimentally demonstrate the capability of pixel super-resolution phase retrieval techniques in revealing the subpixel and quantitative phase information of complex biological samples.
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