As the light travels through the wavefront coding (WFC) system, the modulation transfer function(MTF) of the WFC system was very low, consequently the intermediate blurred image has been received by the detector. However, there is no zero point in the passband of the MTF of the WFC imaging system, and the target information cannot be saved very well. An appropriate filter can be used to restore the sampled intermediate image. The noise of the system is enlarged in the restoration process where the signal be amplified by the filter, and the signal to noise ratio(SNR) of the image is reduced. In order to solve the above issues, an improved algorithm has been proposed in this paper. The noise is controlled by the wavelet in the reconstruction process, and the intermediate blurred image is restored by the wiener filter algorithm with a prior knowledge of the degradation function. Thus, the wavelet de-noising and wiener filter algorithm are combined to restore the middle blurred image of the WFC system. Finally, the restoration image with the diffraction limit level is acquired in image detail restoration and noise control.
In this paper, we report that normal incidence transmission of different circularly polarized waves through the 2D Archimedes’ nanoscale spirals is asymmetric. The structures consist of raised spiral ridge and two layers metal film covered on the substrate and the ridge. The finite difference time domain method was used to design the structure and perform the simulation. The device can distinguish the different circularly polarized wave across the transmission intensity compare with the common Archimedes’ nanoscale spirals which just exhibit the bright or dark modes in the light field. We confirmed that the device provide about 10% circular dichroism in 3.85um-6.0um broadband region. The circular dichroism in the wavelength 3.95 um can reach 13%. This ultracompact device could prove useful for remote sensing and advanced telecommunication applications.
Wavefront coding enables conventional optical imaging systems to operate over an extended depth of field/focus by modifying the light field using a specially designed phase mask. Different phase masks can be used to alter the transmitted wavefront of the optical system which may result in different performances in terms of the capability of the depth-of-focus extension, aberration suppression and the process of imaging acquirement. In this paper, we present a comparative study on the performances of two major different categories of the phase mask, i.e., rotational symmetric and asymmetric type phase masks. Three different types of phase masks that are of cubic, quartic, and logarithmic phase profile are investigated. Fabrication and metrology of a cubic mask is conducted and a full cycle of imaging process including the image coding and decoding is performed.
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