Untrained physics-enhanced fully complex transformer for single-frame hologram reconstruction

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Authors: Ziqi Bai, Xianming Liu, Cheng Guo, Junjun Jiang, Xiangyang Ji
Cited by: 1
References: 17

Abstract

Single-frame hologram reconstruction without training remains challenging for real-world samples due to the difficulty of modeling coupled amplitude and phase information. To address this issue, we develop a fully complex-domain attention mechanism that reformulates attention computation directly in the complex field using complex inner products, enabling more effective representation of amplitude-phase coupling. Based on this formulation, a general fully complex-domain transformer, termed HoloFormer v3, is constructed and instantiated within an untrained reconstruction framework. An auxiliary free-space back-propagation initialization reformulates the highly nonlinear hologram-to-object complex amplitude inversion as a twin-image-suppressed optimization in the object plane. Experiments on real samples demonstrate improved reconstruction accuracy and faster convergence compared with existing untrained methods.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics Digital Holography and Microscopy Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies

Publication details

Journal / source
Optics Letters
Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
Volume
51
Issue
7
Pages
1776–1776
Publication date
5 March 2026
Language
EN