Compressed Sensing Image Mapping Spectrometer

This paper presents a novel snapshot imaging spectrometer based on the image mapping and compressed sensing concept named Compressed Sensing Image Mapping Spectrometer (CSIMS). The operation principle is to slice the input image to different directions and encode the strip pieces before dispersion by a prism. The detector obtains the mixture spatial-spectral data simultaneously. The datacube is reconstructed by the compressed sensing algorithm and combining all the pieces together. The mathematical model of CSIMS is established to describe the light wave propagation through the entire system based on the scalar diffraction theory. The simulations are conducted to prove the effectiveness of the CSIMS principle, and the results show that the reconstructed datacube reveals higher spatial resolution and more accurate spectral curves than that of the relative snapshot imaging spectrometer based on compressed sensing.