Recovery of complex valued objects from two-point intensity correlation measurement

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a technique for the recovery of the wavefront from spatially fluctuating fields using the two point intensity correlation, i.e., fourth order correlation. Assuming spatial ergodicity and Gaussian statistics for the speckle field, we connect the fourth order correlation to the modulus of the corresponding second order correlation. The idea is to retrieve the complex coherence function and consequently the wavefront using the off-axis holography. Application of this technique is demonstrated in the reconstruction of complex field of the object lying behind a weak scatterer. Experimental results of recovery of the complex field of phase objects “vortices” with three values of topological charges are presented.

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