US 12,078,963 B2
System and method for holographic imaging of a single plane of an object
Gary Brooker, Rockville, MD (US); and Nisan Siegel, Silver Spring, MD (US)
Assigned to CELLOPTIC, INC., Rockville, MD (US)
Filed by CELLOPTIC, INC., Rockville, MD (US)
Filed on May 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/322,326.
Application 17/322,326 is a continuation of application No. 15/326,336, granted, now 11,029,646, previously published as PCT/US2015/040024, filed on Jul. 10, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/023,958, filed on Jul. 14, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0271204 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 27/58 (2006.01); G03H 1/00 (2006.01); G03H 1/04 (2006.01); G03H 1/06 (2006.01); G03H 1/28 (2006.01)
CPC G03H 1/0005 (2013.01) [G02B 21/361 (2013.01); G02B 21/367 (2013.01); G02B 27/58 (2013.01); G03H 1/041 (2013.01); G03H 1/0443 (2013.01); G03H 1/0486 (2013.01); G03H 1/06 (2013.01); G03H 1/28 (2013.01); G03H 2001/005 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0447 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0452 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0458 (2013.01); G03H 1/0493 (2013.01); G03H 2210/33 (2013.01); G03H 2222/31 (2013.01); G03H 2222/34 (2013.01); G03H 2222/36 (2013.01); G03H 2223/12 (2013.01); G03H 2223/17 (2013.01); G03H 2223/52 (2013.01); G03H 2240/56 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
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1. A holographic method for detecting self-interference of incoherent light waves emitted exclusively from a single plane of a three dimensional object, without detecting any light originating from any other planes of said object, the method comprising:
optically exciting said single plane exclusive to said any other planes;
receiving, at an optical arrangement, incoherent light waves from said single plane of said object;
forming, from the incoherent light waves received at the optical arrangement, a first beam of incoherent light waves with a first spherical wavefront curvature and a second beam of incoherent light waves from incoherent light waves with a second spherical wavefront curvature differing from the first spherical wavefront curvature; and
recording, as a hologram, a pattern of interference between the first and second beams of incoherent light waves.