Improving axial localization of weak phase particles in digital in-line holography

Abstract

One shortcoming of digital in-line holography (DIH) is the low axial position accuracy due to the elongated particle traces in the reconstruction field. Here, we propose a method that improves the axial localization of DIH when applying it to track the motion of weak phase particles in dense suspensions. The proposed method detects particle positions based on local intensities in the reconstruction field consisting of scattering and incident waves. We perform both numerical and experimental tests and demonstrate that the proposed method has a higher axial position accuracy than the previous method based on the local intensities in the reconstructed scattered field. We show that the proposed method has an axial position error below 1.5 particle diameters for holograms with a particle concentration of 4700 p a r t i c l e s / m m 3 . The proposed method is further validated by tracking the Brownian motion of 1 ยต m p a r t i c l e s in dense suspensions.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Aug 12, 2021
Source ID
10.1364/ao.435021

Entities

People

  • Hangjian Ling
  • Maxwell Shangraw

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).