Grid computing for the numerical reconstruction of digital holograms

J. J. Nebrensky; P. R. Hobson; P. C. Fryer

doi:10.1117/12.610677

23 February 2005 Grid computing for the numerical reconstruction of digital holograms

J. J. Nebrensky, P. R. Hobson, P. C. Fryer

Proceedings Volume 5775, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments III; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.610677
Event: Wilga 2004, 2004, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

Digital holography has the potential to greatly extend holography's applications and move it from the lab into the field: a single CCD or other solid-state sensor can capture any number of holograms while numerical reconstruction within a computer eliminates the need for chemical processing and readily allows further processing and visualization of the holographic image. The steady increase in sensor pixel count and resolution leads to the possibilities of larger sample volumes and of higher spatial resolution sampling, enabling the practical use of digital off-axis holography. However, this increase in pixel count also drives a corresponding expansion of the computational effort needed to numerically reconstruct such holograms to an extent where the reconstruction process for a single depth slice takes significantly longer than the capture process for each single hologram. Grid computing -- a recent innovation in large-scale distributed processing -- provides a convenient means of harnessing significant computing resources in ad-hoc fashion that might match the field deployment of a holographic instrument. In this paper we consider the computational needs of digital holography and discuss the deployment of numerical reconstruction software over an existing Grid testbed. The analysis of marine organisms is used as an exemplar for work flow and job execution of in-line digital holography.

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J. J. Nebrensky, P. R. Hobson, and P. C. Fryer "Grid computing for the numerical reconstruction of digital holograms", Proc. SPIE 5775, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments III, (23 February 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.610677

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