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