Digital Fresnel field encryption for three-dimensional information security

Anith Nelleri; Joby Joseph; Kehar Singh

doi:10.1117/1.2727377

1 April 2007 Digital Fresnel field encryption for three-dimensional information security

Anith Nelleri, Joby Joseph, Kehar Singh

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 46, Issue 4, 045801 (April 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2727377

Abstract

The complex Fresnel field that contains three-dimensional (3-D) information about an object can be retrieved from an optically generated and electronically detected single off-axis Fresnel hologram of a 3-D object. The retrieved complex Fresnel field gives the appearance of a noise-like distribution. This is primarily due to the scattering nature of the object and the resulting speckle noise, which is a salient trait of the reconstruction process of a hologram. We describe a possible method for securing holographic information by digital encoding of the Fresnel field. A single random-phase Fourier plane encoding is carried out with an assumption that the noisy nature of the complex field may be equivalent to the primary random mask-bonded field, as in the case of conventional double random-phase Fourier plane encoding. The analogy between the decryption process and the numerical reconstruction of the hologram leads to a single-step reconstruction of the complex object field from the encrypted Fresnel field, thus saving computational power. The use of a single off-axis hologram is helpful in zero-order and twin-image free reconstruction. The algorithm is explained with experimental results to support the proof of the concept.

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Anith Nelleri, Joby Joseph, and Kehar Singh "Digital Fresnel field encryption for three-dimensional information security," Optical Engineering 46(4), 045801 (1 April 2007). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2727377

Published: 1 April 2007

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