It has been a fabulous year for DISP research, culminating in the publication this summer of two great papers.
The first paper, on multiscale lens design, discusses strategies for increasing the information capacity of geometric-aberration limited lens systems by adding reprocessing optics near the focal plane. Our hope is that this strategy will enable multi-gigapixel or even terapixel imaging through a single aperture. The paper is
David J. Brady and Nathan Hagen, “Multiscale lens design,” Opt. Express 17, 10659-10674 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-13-10659
Zemax files for the lens system described in the paper on line at www.disp.duke.edu
The second paper applies compressive sampling theory to holographic systems and demonstrates 3D tomographic reconstruction from a single Gabor hologram. Data and algorithms used in that paper are also on line at the DISP web site.
The paper is
David J. Brady, Kerkil Choi, Daniel L. Marks, Ryoichi Horisaki, and Sehoon Lim, “Compressive Holography,” Opt. Express 17, 13040-13049 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-15-13040
