ISAR imaging based on improved phase retrieval algorithm

Traditional inverse synthetic aperture radar(ISAR)imaging methods for maneuvering targets have low resolution and poor capability of noise suppression. An ISAR imaging method of maneuvering targets based on phase retrieval is proposed,which can provide a high-resolution and focused map of the spatial distribution of scatterers on the target. According to theoretical derivation, the modulus of raw data from the maneuvering target is not affected by radial motion components for ISAR imaging system, so the phase retrieval algorithm can be used for ISAR imaging problems. However, the traditional phase retrieval algorithm will be not applicable to ISAR imaging under the condition of random noise. To solve this problem, an algorithm is put forward based on the range Doppler(RD) algorithm and oversampling smoothness(OSS) phase retrieval algorithm. The algorithm captures the target information in order to reduce the influence of the random phase on ISAR echoes, and then applies OSS for focusing imaging based on prior information of the RD algorithm. The simulated results demonstrate the validity of this algorithm, which cannot only obtain high resolution imaging for high speed maneuvering targets under the condition of random noise, but also substantially improve the success rate of the phase retrieval algorithm.

A general phase retrieval algorithm based on a ptychographical iterative engine for coherent diffractive imaging

Coherent diffractive imaging （CDI） is a lensless imaging technique and can achieve a resolution beyond the Rayleigh or Abbe limit. The ptychographical iterative engine （PIE） is a CDI phase retrieval algorithm that uses multiple diffraction patterns obtained through the scan of a localized illumination on the specimen, which has been demonstrated successfully at optical and X-ray wavelengths. In this paper, a general PIE algorithm （gPIE） is presented and demonstrated with an He-Ne laser light diffraction dataset. This algorithm not only permits the removal of the accurate model of the illumination function in PIE, but also provides improved convergence speed and retrieval quality.

ANALYTIC PHASE RETRIEVAL BASED ON INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a function f in the Hardy space of the unit disc D by using a sample value f(a)and certain n-intensity measurements|<f,E_(a1…an)>|,where a_(1)…a_(n)∈D,and E_(a1…an)is the n-th term of the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization of the Szego kernels k_(a1),k_(an),or their multiple forms.Three schemes are presented.The first two schemes each directly obtain all the function values f(z).In the first one we use Nevanlinna’s inner and outer function factorization which merely requires the 1-intensity measurements equivalent to know the modulus|f(z)|.In the second scheme we do not use deep complex analysis,but require some 2-and 3-intensity measurements.The third scheme,as an application of AFD,gives sparse representation of f(z)converging quickly in the energy sense,depending on consecutively selected maximal n-intensity measurements|<f,E_(a1…an)>|.

Phase retrieval with PhaseLift algorithm

This paper provides a contemporary overview of phase retrieval problem with PhaseLift algorithm and summarizes theoretical results which have been derived during the past few years.Based on the lifting technique,the phase retrieval problem can be transformed into the low rank matrix recovery problem and then be solved by convex programming known as PhaseLift.Thus,stable guarantees for such problem have been gradually established for measurements sampled from sufficiently random distribution,for instance,the standard normal distribution.Further,exact recovery results have also been set up for masked Fourier measurements which are closely related to practical applications.

PHASE RETRIEVAL OF TIME-LIMITED SIGNALS

The problem of reconstructing a signalφ（x） from its magnitude ｜φ（x）] isof considerable interest to engineers and physicists. This article concerns the problem of determining a time-limited signal f with period 2π when ｜f（eix）l is known for x∈[-π,π]. It is shown that the conditions ｜g（eix）｜ = ｜f（eix）｜ and ｜g（ci（x＋b）） -g（eix）｜ =f（ei（x＋b）） - f（eix）｜, b ≠ 27π, together imply that either g = wf or g = v f, where both w and v have period b. Furthermore, if b/2π is irrational then the functions w and v b is rational then w takes the form reduce to some constants c1 and c2, respectively; ifb/2π is rational then w takes the form w=elexB1（e1x）B2（elx）and v takes the form ei（x2πN/b＋a）B1（elx）B2（elx）,where B1 and B2 are Blaschke products.

Algorithm for phase contrast X-ray tomography based on nonlinear phase retrieval

A new algorithm for phase contrast X-ray tomography under holographic measurement was proposed in this paper. The main idea of the algorithm was to solve the nonlinear phase retrieval problem using the Newton iterative method. The linear equations for the Newton directions were proved to be ill-posed and the regularized solutions were obtained by the conjugate gradient method. Some numerical experiments with computer simulated data were presented. The efficiency, feasibility and the numerical stability of the algorithm were illustrated by the numerical experiments. Compared with the results produced by the linearized phase retrieval algorithm, we can see that the new algorithm is not limited to be only efficient for the data measured in the near-field of the Fresnel region and thus it has a broader validity range.

Broad-band phase retrieval method for transient radial shearing interference using chirp Z transform technique

The transient radial shearing interferometry technique based on fast Fourier transform(FFT)provides a means for the measurement of the wavefront phase of transient light field.However,which factors affect the spatial bandwidth of the wavefront phase measurement of this technology and how to achieve high-precision measurement of the broad-band transient wavefront phase are problems that need to be studied further.To this end,a theoretical model of phase-retrieved bandwidth of radial shearing interferometry is established in this paper.The influence of the spatial carrier frequency and the calculation window on phase-retrieved bandwidth is analyzed,and the optimal carrier frequency and calculation window are obtained.On this basis,a broad-band transient radial shearing interference phase-retrieval method based on chirp Z transform(CZT)is proposed,and the corresponding algorithm is given.Through theoretical simulation,a known phase is used to generate the interferogram and it is retrieved by the traditional method and the proposed method respectively.The residual wavefront RMS of the traditional method is 0.146λ,and it is 0.037λfor the proposed method,which manifests an improvement of accuracy by an order of magnitude.At the same time,different levels of signal-to-noise ratios(SNRs)from 50 dB to 10 dB of the interferogram are simulated,and the RMS of the residual wavefront is from 0.040λto 0.066λ.In terms of experiments,an experimental verification device based on a phase-only spatial light modulator is built,and the known phase on the modulator is retrieved from the actual interferogram.The RMS of the residual wavefront retrieved through FFT is 0.112λ,and it decreases to 0.035λthrough CZT.The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper.Furthermore,the method can be used in other types of spatial carrier frequency interference,such as lateral shearing interference,rotational shearing interference,flipping shearing interference,and four-wave shearing interference.

Temporally Modulated Phase Retrieval Method for Weak Temporal Phase Measurement of Laser Pulses

We propose a simple iterative algorithm based on a temporally movable phase modulation process to retrieve the weak temporal phase of laser pulses. This unambiguous method can be used to achieve a high accuracy and to simultaneously measure the weak temporal phase and temporal profile of pulses, which are almost transform- limited. A detailed analysis shows that this iterative method has valuable potential applications in the charac- terization of pulses with weak temporal phase.

L1/2 -Regularized Quantile Method for Sparse Phase Retrieval

The sparse phase retrieval aims to recover the sparse signal from quadratic measurements. However, the measurements are often affected by outliers and asymmetric distribution noise. This paper introduces a novel method that combines the quantile regression and the L1/2-regularizer. It is a non-convex, non-smooth, non-Lipschitz optimization problem. We propose an efficient algorithm based on the Alternating Direction Methods of Multiplier (ADMM) to solve the corresponding optimization problem. Numerous numerical experiments show that this method can recover sparse signals with fewer measurements and is robust to dense bounded noise and Laplace noise.

Single-shot phase retrieval for randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beams

Vortex beams with orbital angular momentum play a crucial role in increasing the information capacity in optical communications.The magnitude of orbital angular momentum determines the ability of information encoding.In practice,a vortex beam can encounter random objects or turbulence during free-space propagation,resulting in information damage.Therefore,accurately measuring the orbital angular momentum of a randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beam is a considerable challenge.Herein,we propose a single-shot method for the phase retrieval of a randomly fluctuated and obstructed vortex beam by combining the phase-shift theorem and self-reference holography.Experimental results reveal that the sign and magnitude of the initial orbital angular momentum can be simultaneously determined based on their quantitative relation with the number of coherence singularities on the observation plane,thus addressing the effects of random occlusion and atmospheric turbulence.The proposed method considerably improved the accurate decoding of orbital angular momentum information in nonideal freespace optical communications.

Inertial Proximal ADMM for Separable Multi-Block Convex Optimizations and Compressive Affine Phase Retrieval

Separable multi-block convex optimization problem appears in many mathematical and engineering fields.In the first part of this paper,we propose an inertial proximal ADMM to solve a linearly constrained separable multi-block convex optimization problem,and we show that the proposed inertial proximal ADMM has global convergence under mild assumptions on the regularization matrices.Affine phase retrieval arises in holography,data separation and phaseless sampling,and it is also considered as a nonhomogeneous version of phase retrieval,which has received considerable attention in recent years.Inspired by convex relaxation of vector sparsity and matrix rank in compressive sensing and by phase lifting in phase retrieval,in the second part of this paper,we introduce a compressive affine phase retrieval via lifting approach to connect affine phase retrieval with multi-block convex optimization,and then based on the proposed inertial proximal ADMM for 3-block convex optimization,we propose an algorithm to recover sparse real signals from their(noisy)affine quadratic measurements.Our numerical simulations show that the proposed algorithm has satisfactory performance for affine phase retrieval of sparse real signals.

Application of phase-diverse phase retrieval to wavefront sensing in non-connected complicated pupil optics

Baseline algorithm, as a tool in wavefront sensing （WFS）, incorporates the phase-diverse phase retrieval （PDPR） method with hybrid-unwrapping approach to ensure a unique pupil phase estimate with high WFS accuracy even in the case of high dynamic range aberration, as long as the pupil shape is of a convex set. However, for a complicated pupil, such as that in obstructed pupil optics, the said unwrapping approach would fail owing to the fake values at points located in obstructed areas of the pupil. Thus a modified unwrapping approach that can minimize the negative effects of the obstructed areas is proposed. Simulations have shown the validity of this unwrapping approach when it is embedded in Baseline algorithm.

Large-scale phase retrieval

High-throughput computational imaging requires efficient processing algorithms to retrieve multi-dimensional and multi-scale information.In computational phase imaging,phase retrieval(PR)is required to reconstruct both amplitude and phase in complex space from intensity-only measurements.The existing PR algorithms suffer from the tradeoff among low computational complexity,robustness to measurement noise and strong generalization on different modalities.In this work,we report an efficient large-scale phase retrieval technique termed as LPR.It extends the plug-and-play generalized-alternating-projection framework from real space to nonlinear complex space.The alternating projection solver and enhancing neural network are respectively derived to tackle the measurement formation and statistical prior regularization.This framework compensates the shortcomings of each operator,so as to realize high-fidelity phase retrieval with low computational complexity and strong generalization.We applied the technique for a series of computational phase imaging modalities including coherent diffraction imaging,coded diffraction pattern imaging,and Fourier ptychographic microscopy.Extensive simulations and experiments validate that the technique outperforms the existing PR algorithms with as much as 17dB enhancement on signal-to-noise ratio,and more than one order-of-magnitude increased running efficiency.Besides,we for the first time demonstrate ultralarge-scale phase retrieval at the 8K level(7680×4320 pixels)in minute-level time.

On-line beam diagnostics based on single-shot beam splitting phase retrieval

We propose a novel on-line beam diagnostic method based on single-shot beam splitting phase retrieval. The incident beam to be measured is diffracted into many replicas by a Dammann grating and then propagates through a weakly scattering phase plate with a known structure; the exiting beams propagate along their original direction and form an array of diffraction patterns on the detector plane. By applying the intensity of diffraction patterns into an iterative algorithm and calculating between the grating plane, weakly scattering plane, and detector plane, the complex field of the incident beam can be reconstructed rapidly; the feasibility of this method is verified experimentally with wavelengths of 1053 and 632.8 nm.

Improved phase retrieval in holographic data storage based on a designed iterative embedded data

Embedded data are used to retrieve phases quicker with high accuracy in phase-modulated holographic data storage(HDS).We propose a method to design an embedded data distribution using iterations to enhance the intensity of the high-frequency signal in the Fourier spectrum.The proposed method increases the antinoise performance and signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)of the Fourier spectrum distribution,realizing a more efficient phase retrieval.Experiments indicate that the bit error rate(BER)of this method can be reduced by a factor of one after 10 iterations.

Phase Retrieval via Sensor Network Localization

The problem of phase retrieval is revisited and studied from a fresh perspective.In particular,we establish a connection between the phase retrieval problem and the sensor network localization problem,which allows us to utilize the vast theoretical and algorithmic literature on the latter to tackle the former.Leveraging this connection,we develop a two-stage algorithm for phase retrieval that can provably recover the desired signal.In both sparse and dense settings,our proposed algorithm improves upon prior approaches simultaneously in the number of required measurements for recovery and the reconstruction time.We present numerical results to corroborate our theory and to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.As a side result,we propose a new form of phase retrieval problem and connect it to the complex rigidity theory proposed by Gortler and Thurston(in:Connelly R,Ivic Weiss A,Whiteley W(eds)Rigidity and symmetry,Springer,New York,pp 131–154,2014).

The minimal measurement number for generalized conjugate phase retrieval

The generalized conjugate phase retrieval problem aims to reconstruct a complex signal x ∈ C^(n) from quadratic measurements x*A_(1)x,...,x*A_(m)x,where A_(1),...,A_(m)∈R^(n×n) are real symmetric matrices.The equivalent formulation for generalized conjugate phase retrieval along with the minimal measurement number required for accurate retrieval(up to a global phase factor as well as conjugacy) is derived in this paper.We present a set of nine vectors in R^(4) and prove that it is conjugate phase retrievable on C^(4).This result implies the measurement number bound 4n-6 is not optimal for some n,which confirms a conjecture in the article by Evans and Lai(2019).

Phase Retrieval of Real-valued Functions in Sobolev Space

The Sobolev space HS（Rd） with s 〉 d/2 contains many important functions such as the bandlimited or rational ones. In this paper we propose a sequence of measurement functions { φj^r,k}∈C H^-S（R^d） to the phase retrieval problem for the real-valued functions in H^s（R^d）. We prove that any real-valued function f ∈ H^s （Rd） can be determined, up to a global sign, by the phaseless measurements {｜（ f, φj^r,k}｜}. It is known that phase retrieval is unstable in infinite dimensional spaces with respect to perturbations of the measurement functions. We examine a special type of perturbations that ensures the stability for the phase-retrieval problem for all the real-valued functions in Hs（Rd） ∩ C1（Rd）, and prove that our iterated reconstruction procedure guarantees uniform convergence for any function f ∈ Hs （Rd）∩ C1 （Rd） whose Fourier transform f is L1-integrable. Moreover, numerical simulations are conducted to test the efficiency of the reconstruction algorithm.

An Improved Phase Retrieval Algorithm for X-ray In-line Phase-Contrast Imaging

Phase contrast imaging technique has been improved promptly in recent years. Among these techniques in-line phase-contrast imaging is widely used. Various algorithms for in-line phase retrieval have been proposed so far such as TIE(transport of intensity equation), CTF(contrast transfer function), first born-approximations, GSF(Gerchberg-Saxton-Fienup), etc. Bronnikov's algorithm(BA) is a type of linear algorithm that is simple and efficient. But it can only be used without absorption situations. In this paper, an improved algorithm based on BA was presented. The approach adds Δφ(x,y) to the phase map φ_b(x,y) retrieved by BA to make the reconstructed phase map more precise. Further, the approach was evaluated on simulated images and confirmed to be accurate at higher absorption rates.

The Global Landscape of Phase Retrieval I:Perturbed Amplitude Models

A fundamental task in phase retrieval is to recover an unknown signal x∈R^(n) from a set of magnitude-only measurements y_(i)=|〈a_(i),x〉|,i=1,…,m.In this paper,we propose two novel perturbed amplitude models(PAMs)which have a non-convex and quadratic-type loss function.When the measurements a_(i)∈R^(n) are Gaussian random vectors and the number of measurements m≥Cn,we rigorously prove that the PAMs admit no spurious local minimizers with high probability,i.e.,the target solution x is the unique local minimizer(up to a global phase)and the loss function has a negative directional curvature around each saddle point.Thanks to the well-tamed benign geometric landscape,one can employ the vanilla gradient descent method to locate the global minimizer x(up to a global phase)without spectral initialization.We carry out extensive numerical experiments to show that the gradient descent algorithm with random initialization outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms with spectral initialization in empirical success rate and convergence speed.