Spatiotemporal heterodyne detection

J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2007 Sep;24(9):2701-9. doi: 10.1364/josaa.24.002701.

Abstract

We describe a scheme in which a camera is turned into an efficient tunable frequency filter of a few-Hertz bandwidth in an off-axis, heterodyne optical mixing configuration, enabling one to perform parallel, high-resolution coherent spectral imaging. This approach is made possible through the combination of a spatial and temporal modulation of the signal to reject noise contributions. Experimental data obtained with dynamically scattered light by a suspension of particles in Brownian motion is interpreted.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Filtration
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Optics and Photonics*
  • Scattering, Radiation*
  • Time Factors