Shot Noise in Digital Holography

We discuss on noise in heterodyne holography in an off-axis configuration. We show that, for a weak signal, the noise is dominated by the shot noise on the reference beam. This noise corresponds to an equivalent noise on the signal beam of one photoelectron per pixel, for the whole sequence of images used to build the digital hologram.

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Source Information Optics and Photonics: Algorithms, Systems, and Applications
Author Joud, Fadwa, Verpillat, Frédéric, Atlan, Michael, Taillard, Pierre-André, Gross, Michel
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 15, 2026, 22:37 (UTC)
Created May 15, 2026, 22:37 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00705316
Language en
Rights https://about.hal.science/hal-authorisation-v1/
contributor Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB (Lhomond)) ; Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS) ; École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Joud, Fadwa
date 2010-02-01T00:00:00
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harvest_source_id 3374d638-d20b-4672-ba96-a23232d55657
harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2024-10-22T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1206.1475
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