Digital Holography: Techniques and Applications

Since the invention of holography in 1940s, it has been widely used in the fields of optics. After the 1990s, digital holography (DH) developed rapidly, which features the acquisition and processing of holograms with digital cameras and computers, respectively. Generally, the full information, including amplitude and phase, of an optical wave can be reconstrued from the hologram, from which the three-dimensional surface or optical thickness distribution of an object can be deduced. Meanwhile, many efforts have been made to enhance the spatial resolution, imaging speed, phase accuracy, measurement range, as well as hologram recording and reconstruction of DH in general. Notably, with the rapid development of computer science and other subjects, there are some new revolutions in DH, such as incoherent DH, compressive DH, DH imaging through scattering medium, entanglement-enabled quantum holography. Meanwhile, dozens of image processing algorithms, including machine learning, deep learning technologies, bring as well breakthroughs to digital holography. Nowadays, DH has wide applications in industrial inspection, air/gas visualization, 3D imaging/display, and the biomedical field.

The core of this call relates to the latest development of digital holography, as well as some new technologies in quantitative phase imaging such as wavefront sensing systems, shearing approach, transport of intensity equation (TIE) based approach, beam-propagation-based methods, Fourier ptychography, and so on. Manuscripts are solicited on, but not limited to the following topics:

- Advances in digital holographic techniques
- 3D imaging and display systems
- Computer generated holograms
- Compressive holography
- Digital holographic microscopy
- Digital holographic tomography
- Digital holography in LIDAR and related remote sensing techniques
- Dynamic holography and novel recording materials
- Digital holography in nonlinear optical systems
- Digital holography for inspection of scattering media
- Holographic lithography
- Incoherent holography
- Optical information processing
- Metrology and profilometry
- Quantitative phase imaging
- Transport of intensity
- Polarization holography
- Phase retrieval
- Ptychography/Fourier ptychography
- Biomedical, clinical and medical applications
- Terahertz generation and its application to digital holography
- Deep learning, neural networks related to DH and applications
- Emerging applications of digital holography