Abstract

Long-IR wavelength is the best option for capturing digital holograms of large-size, real-world objects. However, the coherent noise level in a long-IR hologram is by far larger than that of a visible wavelength recording, thus resulting in a poor quality of both numerical and optical reconstructions. In this Letter, we show how such coherent noise can be efficiently suppressed by employing an optical scanning multi-look approach, in combination with 3D block matching numerical filtering. Results demonstrate the possibility to obtain near noise-free numerical reconstructions of IR digital holograms of large-size objects, while preserving resolution. We applied this method to the holograms of a rotating statuette. It will be shown that a remarkable contrast enhancement is achievable along with the recovery of object details that otherwise would be lost because of large speckle grains intrinsically due to the source coherence.

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