Multidimensional object acquisition by single-shot phase imaging with a coded aperture

We propose a generalized framework for quantitatively acquiring multidimensional complex objects based on single-shot phase imaging with a coded aperture (SPICA). In multidimensional SPICA, a propagating field from a multidimensional complex object is sieved by a coded aperture, the sieved field is modulated by an optical element, which is called coding optics, and then the resultant field is captured by a monochrome image sensor. The original complex field is reconstructed from the single captured intensity image by a phase retrieval algorithm with a support constraint of the coded aperture and a sparsity-based reconstruction algorithm based on compressive sensing. We also present theoretical conditions for the proposed method. As a demonstration, we numerically verified an application of this generalized framework for single-shot acquisition of depth-variant multispectral objects. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America