Suppression of Speckle Noise in Digital Holography With Spatial and Temporal Domain Depolarization

Speckle noise in digital holography has a great influence on image quality, and one of the reasons for the formation of speckle noise is that the degree of coherence for the reference light and the object light is too high and unnecessary noise is introduced to the recorded hologram. In this paper,...

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Published in:IEEE access 2020, Vol.8, p.22266-22274
Main Authors: Du, Tongyao, Kong, Yong, Qian, Xinlei, Ding, Wei, Wang, Zhenwei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Coherence
Depolarization
Digital holography speckle noise
Digital imaging
Domains
Holography
Image quality
Image reconstruction
Light
Linear polarization
liquid crystal
Liquid crystals
Noise
Noise reduction
Polarized light
quartz depolarizer
Wave plates
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Summary:Speckle noise in digital holography has a great influence on image quality, and one of the reasons for the formation of speckle noise is that the degree of coherence for the reference light and the object light is too high and unnecessary noise is introduced to the recorded hologram. In this paper, the spatial depolarization and the temporal domain depolarization are analyzed to reduce the speckle noise. The spatial depolarization utilizes the depolarization performance of the depolarizer. By adding a quartz depolarizer to the object light, the linearly polarized light in the object light becomes randomly polarized light, thereby reducing the degree of coherence with the reference light, realizing the suppression of speckle noise, and by utilizing the characteristics of pupil parameters towards the depolarization degree, it is to realize the control for the degree of coherence. The temporal domain depolarization uses two quarter-wave plates and adjustable liquid crystal to realize the depolarization superposition. By controlling the phase delay of the liquid crystal phase variable retarder, the multi-depolarization accumulation in a short time is realized, and the experimental results show that this method preserves the detail portion of the image while better removing speckle noise. Finally, the Non-Local Means filtering algorithm is used to make the reconstructed image smoother. The method proposed in this paper has great applicable value for improving the image quality of digital holography system.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2970084