Coherent noise suppression in digital holography based on flat fielding with apodized apertures.

Great number of approaches has been carried out in digital holography (DH) in order to overcome the problem of coherent noise in the reconstruction process. In this paper, we describe a new method that can be used to suppress the coherent noise in phase-contrast image. The proposed method is a combination of the flat fielding method and the apodized apertures technique. The proposed method is applied to a sample of 200 μm step height. The quality of the phase-contrast image of the sample is refined and the coherent noise level is reduced drastically by the order of 65%. The proposed method can also applicable to noise reduction of intensity imaging.

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