Maskless Fourier transform holography

Fourier transform holography is a lensless imaging technique that retrieves an object's exit-wave function with high fidelity. It has been used to study nanoscale phenomena and spatio-temporal dynamics in solids, with sensitivity to the phase component of electronic and magnetic textures. Howev...

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Main Authors: Keskinbora, Kahraman, Levitan, Abraham L, Comin, Riccardo
Other Authors: MIT Materials Research Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Optical Society 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141452
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author Keskinbora, Kahraman
Levitan, Abraham L
Comin, Riccardo
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description Fourier transform holography is a lensless imaging technique that retrieves an object's exit-wave function with high fidelity. It has been used to study nanoscale phenomena and spatio-temporal dynamics in solids, with sensitivity to the phase component of electronic and magnetic textures. However, the method requires an invasive and labor-intensive nanopatterning of a holography mask directly onto the sample, which can alter the sample properties, forces a fixed field-of-view, and leads to a low signal-to-noise ratio at high resolution. In this work, we propose using wavefront-shaping diffractive optics to create a structured probe with full control of its phase at the sample plane, circumventing the need for a mask. We demonstrate in silico that the method can image nanostructures and magnetic textures and validate our approach with a visible light-based experiment. The method enables investigation of a plethora of phenomena at the nanoscale including magnetic and electronic phase coexistence in solids, with further uses in soft and biological matter research.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1414522023-02-14T19:20:22Z Maskless Fourier transform holography Keskinbora, Kahraman Levitan, Abraham L Comin, Riccardo MIT Materials Research Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Fourier transform holography is a lensless imaging technique that retrieves an object's exit-wave function with high fidelity. It has been used to study nanoscale phenomena and spatio-temporal dynamics in solids, with sensitivity to the phase component of electronic and magnetic textures. However, the method requires an invasive and labor-intensive nanopatterning of a holography mask directly onto the sample, which can alter the sample properties, forces a fixed field-of-view, and leads to a low signal-to-noise ratio at high resolution. In this work, we propose using wavefront-shaping diffractive optics to create a structured probe with full control of its phase at the sample plane, circumventing the need for a mask. We demonstrate in silico that the method can image nanostructures and magnetic textures and validate our approach with a visible light-based experiment. The method enables investigation of a plethora of phenomena at the nanoscale including magnetic and electronic phase coexistence in solids, with further uses in soft and biological matter research. 2022-04-01T14:05:26Z 2022-04-01T14:05:26Z 2022-01-03 2022-04-01T14:00:26Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141452 Keskinbora, Kahraman, Levitan, Abraham L and Comin, Riccardo. 2022. "Maskless Fourier transform holography." Optics Express, 30 (1). en 10.1364/oe.444455 Optics Express Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf The Optical Society OSA Publishing
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