3D correlation imaging for localized phase disturbance mitigation

Abstract

Correlation plenoptic imaging is a procedure to perform light-field imaging without spatial resolution loss, by measuring second-order spatio-temporal correlations of light. We investigate the possibility to use correlation plenoptic imaging to mitigate the effect of a phase disturbance in the propagation from the object to the main lens. We assume that this detrimental effect, that can be due to a turbulent medium, is localized at a specific distance from the lens, and is slowly varying in time. The mitigation of turbulence effects has already fostered the development of both light-field imaging and correlation imaging procedures. Here, we aim at merging these aspects, proposing a correlation light-field imaging method to overcome the effects of slowly varying turbulence, without the loss of lateral resolution, typical of traditional plenoptic imaging devices.