Pupil-resizing Fourier ptychography

We present a coherent approach of complex amplitude reconstruction, termed aperture-resizing Fourier ptychography (FP). The reported approach resizes the pupil size of an imaging system and captures the corresponding intensity images. The acquired images are then synthesized in the frequency domain via iteration computation to reconstruct a complex sample wavefront without known phase information and interferential optics. Like holography, it is capable of reconstructing all information of the object. The reported aperture-resizing FP may find wide applications in 3D refocusing, 3D object tracking, remote sensing and microscopy.