Holography with higher-order Stokes correlation

Abstract

We present and experimentally demonstrate a holography technique with a higher-order Stokes correlation of the random light field. The proposed technique is capable to reconstruct the complex-valued object from the random light field, and overcome twin image issues in the higher-order correlation holography without angular shift, phase shifting, and iterations. A basic principle of the proposed technique is presented and its application is demonstrated by establishing a connection between the higher-order Stokes fluctuations correlations and the far-field complex coherence function of the random field in a lensless configuration. The viability of our technique is demonstrated by considering incoherent reconstruction of the hologram and reconstructing the complex-valued information encoded into the hologram as a distribution of complex coherence function. © 2022 American Physical Society.