Single-shot ptychography with highly tilted illuminations.

ABSTRACT

A single-shot ptychographic iterative engine (PIE) using highly tilted illumination is proposed to realize accurate phase retrieval from a single frame of multiple and non-overlapping sub-diffraction patterns generated by a bunch of laser beams propagating at greater angles with respect to the optical axis. A non-paraxial reconstruction algorithm is developed to numerically propagate these highly tilted laser beams in back and forth iterative computations. Faster data acquisition and higher reconstruction quality are achieved in the proposed method by recording non-overlapping sub-diffraction patterns in a single frame and eliminating usual reconstruction errors arising from paraxial approximations.