SLM aided noninvasive imaging through thin scattering layers

Abstract: We propose and demonstrate a new imaging technique to noninvasively see through scattering layers with the aid of a spatial light modulator (SLM). A relay system projects the incoherent light pattern emitting from the scattering layer onto the SLM. Two coded phase masks are displayed, one after another, on the SLM to modulate the projected scattered field. Two corresponding intensity patterns are recorded by a digital camera, and subtracted one from the other in the computer to obtain a bipolar matrix. A modified phase retrieval algorithm is used to retrieve the object information from this bipolar matrix.