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Lensless inline holographic Mueller matrix imaging

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With the advantages of a large field of view, portability, and cost-effectiveness, lensless imaging has been applied widely nowadays. However, as a powerful tool for complete polarimetric characterization of microstructural and optical properties of a medium, Mueller matrix imaging has not yet been integrated in lensless imaging scheme. Here we propose a lensless inline polarization holographic system for high-speed and high-resolution Mueller matrix imaging. Liquid crystal variable retarders are introduced to realize high-speed response and avoid vibrations and positioning errors. We apply the blind deconvolution for depolarized imaging reconstruction and the back-propagation approach for polarization hologram reconstruction, respectively. The polarimetric imaging ability and resolution performance of the proposed technique are demonstrated. Furthermore, Mueller matrix images and certain quantitative polarimetric parameters of biological samples are calculated. The proposed method can be easily implemented and integrated in various lensless imaging techniques for on-chip polarimetric imaging.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (JD2019JGPY0020) and the Key industrialization projects of Intelligent Manufacturing Institute, Hefei University of Technology (IMICZ2019001).

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    Yong Fang & Juntao Hu

  2. School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China

    Wei Li & Jinye Li

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by YF, WL and JL. The first draft of the manuscript was written by YF. JH is responsible for reviewing, editing and funding acquisition. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Fang, Y., Li, W., Li, J. et al. Lensless inline holographic Mueller matrix imaging. Opt Rev 30, 606–616 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-023-00843-7

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