Ptychography imaging by 1-D scanning with a diffuser

It is beneficial to improve the resolution by a diffuser in imaging systems, because higher frequency information could be involved into the captured patterns via scattering effect. In this paper, a lensless imaging method is designed by 1-D scanning. A diffuser is placed upstream of the object, which is translated in a one-dimensional path and corresponding positions are corrected by cross-correlation. Our method requires a diffraction pattern of the object without a diffuser to speed up convergence and improve resolution. In field reconstruction, the amplitude constraint is added into the iterative phase retrieval algorithm. The high-quality complex-valued images can be obtained with ∼15 patterns. As a ptychography, the proposed method only needs a 1-D device, which could simplify the experimental equipment for reducing costs and measurement time.