Video-rate compressive holographic microscopic tomography

Compressive holography enables 3D reconstruction from a single 2D holographic snapshot for objects that can be sparsely represented in some basis. The snapshot mode enables tomographic imaging of microscopic moving objects. We demonstrate video-rate tomographic image acquisition of two live water cyclopses with 5.2 mu m spatial resolution and 60 mu m axial resolution. (C)2011 Optical Society of America