Space-Bandwidth Capacity-Enhanced Digital Holography

We propose a single-shot digital holography in which the space bandwidth available for recording an object wave can be extended in an off-axis configuration. The key points of this technique are utilizing the periodicity of a digital signal and the undersampling, intentionally setting the aliasing to the recorded hologram, and conducting spatial-carrier phase-shifting interferometry and the Fourier transform method. The image quality for both large objects and fine structures can be improved by the keys. The effectiveness of the proposed technique was numerically and experimentally demonstrated. Then, the performance and the optimal angle condition were quantitatively analyzed.