Phase-space synthesized digital holography for high space-bandwidth product imaging

High resolution and wide field of view (FOV) are always the goals of imaging, which are related to the space-bandwidth product (SBP) of the system. Currently, most methods focus on either resolution enhancement or FOV extension. Few works pay attention on both. There lacks a generalized framework for the joint space-frequency SBP expansion. We propose such a holographic imaging method, termed phase-space synthesized digital holography (PSH), which can improve and adjust resolution and FOV simultaneously, based on a phase-space analysis. Through a controllable SBP expansion in the phase space by multiangle divergent spherical wave illumination, a synthesized hologram is obtained to reconstruct a resolution-enhanced and FOV-extended image. As a general methodology of SBP expansion, the proposed method could open new insights for the imaging community.