Non-iterative imaging of inhomogeneous cold atom clouds using phase retrieval from a single diffraction measurement

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1586-1599

  Sheludko, D V ^a   McCulloch, A J ^a   Jasperse, M ^a   Quiney, H M ^a   Scholten, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CLOUDS; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SURFACE WAVES;

ATOMIC COLUMNS; ATOMIC DENSITY; COLD ATOMS; COLUMN DENSITY; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DETECTOR PLANES; DIFFRACTION MEASUREMENTS; DIFFRACTIVE IMAGING; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; INHOMOGENEOUS CLOUDS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NON-ITERATIVE; OBJECT PLANES; PARAXIAL; PHASE RETRIEVAL; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE-SHOT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TRANSPORT OF INTENSITY EQUATIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 75349091240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001586     Document Type: Article

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