Infrared digital holography: applications and perspectives

Eugenio Pugliese, Massimiliano Locatelli and Riccardo Meucci
National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), Largo E. Fermi 6, 50125, Florence, Italy

Infrared Digital Holography (IRDH) is emerging as a powerful technique for various applications such as non-destructive evaluation and vision in harsh environments. At the National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), pioneering work has been carried out over the past decade to explore the capabilities of both long-wave (LWIR) and short-wave (SWIR) digital holography for building structural health monitoring and for imaging through obscuring media such as smoke and flames. This review describes the key publications that demonstrate the advantages of IRDH in these applications, such as lensless acquisition, real-time processing and robust performances. By combining advanced interferometric methods and numerical wavefront reconstruction, IRDH represents a unique solution for structural diagnostics and emergency response. © Anita Publications. All rights reserved.
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Keywords: Infrared Digital Holography, IR Radiation, Environmental sensing, Interferometric imaging technique.

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