Three-dimensional imaging through turbid media based on polarization-difference liquid-crystal microlens array

Zhaowei Xin; Dong Wei; Dapeng Li; Xingwang Xie; Mingce Chen; Xinyu Zhang; Haiwei Wang; Changsheng Xie

doi:10.1117/12.2286468

19 February 2018 Three-dimensional imaging through turbid media based on polarization-difference liquid-crystal microlens array

Zhaowei Xin, Dong Wei, Dapeng Li, Xingwang Xie, Mingce Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Haiwei Wang, Changsheng Xie

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Proceedings Volume 10607, MIPPR 2017: Multispectral Image Acquisition, Processing, and Analysis; 106070D (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2286468
Event: Tenth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR2017), 2017, Xiangyang, China

Abstract

In this paper, a polarization difference liquid-crystal microlens array (PD-LCMLA) for three dimensional imaging application through turbid media is fabricated and demonstrated. This device is composed of a twisted nematic liquidcrystal cell (TNLCC), a polarizer and a liquid-crystal microlens array. The polarizer is sandwiched between the TNLCC and LCMLA to help the polarization difference system achieving the orthogonal polarization raw images. The prototyped camera for polarization difference imaging has been constructed by integrating the PD-LCMLA with an image sensor. The orthogonally polarized light-field images are recorded by switching the working state of the TNLCC. Here, by using a special microstructure in conjunction with the polarization-difference algorithm, we demonstrate that the three-dimensional information in the scattering media can be retrieved from the polarization-difference imaging system with an electrically tunable PD-LCMLA. We further investigate the system’s potential function based on the flexible microstructure. The microstructure provides a wide operation range in the manipulation of incident beams and also emerges multiple operation modes for imaging applications, such as conventional planar imaging, polarization imaging mode, and polarization-difference imaging mode. Since the PD-LCMLA demonstrates a very low power consumption, multiple imaging modes and simple manufacturing, this kind of device presents a potential to be used in many other optical and electro-optical systems.

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Zhaowei Xin, Dong Wei, Dapeng Li, Xingwang Xie, Mingce Chen, Xinyu Zhang, Haiwei Wang, and Changsheng Xie "Three-dimensional imaging through turbid media based on polarization-difference liquid-crystal microlens array", Proc. SPIE 10607, MIPPR 2017: Multispectral Image Acquisition, Processing, and Analysis, 106070D (19 February 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2286468

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Liquid crystals

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