Incoherent holographic camera based on Michelson Interferometer

Incoherent holography is a hybrid imaging technology with coherent and incoherent processes. Compared with coherent holography, incoherent holography can alleviate coherent noise and speckle noise, and thus achieve higher signal-to-noise ratio. In this article, the incoherent holographic camera based on Michelson interferometer is built, which consists of a telescope, a beam-splitting cube, two plane mirrors, two lenses and a monochromatic charge coupled device. The point spread function (PSF) of the system is determined for the first time according to the Fresnel diffraction theory. Both the simulated and experimental 2D PSFs are coincident with each other. The three-step generalized phase shift interferometry instead of the piezo-actuator is used to eliminate zero-order and twin images. The two one-jiao coins with 15 mm apart and a toy house are recorded under xenon lamp illumination. The reconstructed image clearly demonstrates that the system has the ability to obtain spatial 3D information of an object.