Abstract

A noise analysis is performed on an electronic holography first-arriving-light system. Analytical expressions for the signal-to-noise ratio caused by the dominant noise terms are derived. The effect of various system parameters on the signal-to-noise ratio is explored; numerical and experimental examples are given.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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