Print Email Facebook Twitter Influence of virtual images on the signal-to-noise ratio in digital in-line particle holography Title Influence of virtual images on the signal-to-noise ratio in digital in-line particle holography Author Koek, W.D. Bhattacharya, N. Braat, J.J.M. Ooms, T.A. Westerweel, J. Faculty Applied Sciences Department Imaging Science and Technology Date 2005-04-04 Abstract A theoretical analysis describing the dependence of the signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) on the number of pixels and the number of particles is presented for in-line digital particle holography. The validity of the theory is verified by means of numerical simulation. Based on the theory we present a practical performance benchmark for digital holographic systems. Using this benchmark we improve the performance of an experimental holographic system by a factor three. We demonstrate that the ability to quantitatively analyze the system performance allows for a more systematic way of designing, optimizing, and comparing digital holographic systems. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:25f621c5-a96d-4fd2-ba37-5d61b7c19c33 Publisher Optical Society of America ISSN 1094-4087 Source Optics Express, 13 (7), 2005 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2005 The Author(s)Optical Society of America Files PDF Koek_2005.pdf 538.65 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:25f621c5-a96d-4fd2-ba37-5d61b7c19c33/datastream/OBJ/view