Abstract
We introduce the digital holographic microscope for recording in vivo human eye retinal structures. Current eye imaging technologies cannot provide images with resolutions better than 1 µm within depths of a few hundred micrometers. This can be improved with digital holography, in which a hologram of the eye captured with digital camera contains information about structures over the full depth of the eye. This information can be reconstructed either optically or numerically. Our hologram recording scheme utilizes working principles of the off-axis digital holographic microscope, designed for reflective micro-object investigation. The eye cornea and lens form the microscope objective. We can record in vivo digital holograms of the human eye retina with resolution after reconstruction of at least 1.3 micrometer.
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