Fig. 1. Digital encoding step.

Fig. 2. Optical decoding step.

Fig. 3. Schematic of the proposed method.

Fig. 4. Simulation results (a) and (e) from the conventional SCMM and (b) and (f), (c) and (g), and (d) and (h) the proposed method with different numbers of iterations using a random phase diffuser of the 256 gray level.

Fig. 5. Reconstructed amplitude and phase. (a) and (e) by the proposed method at 50 times iterations. (b) and (f) by the conventional SCMM. (c) and (g) by the off-axis method. (d) and (h) by the DPH method.

Fig. 6. Created complex field k0(x,y)1920×1080, reconstruction of the amplitude and phase at (a) and (b) 768×768, (e) and (f) 512×512, (i) and (j) 256×256 by the conventional SCMM. Reconstruction of the amplitude and phase at (c) and (d) 768×768, (g) and (h) 512×512, (k) and (l) 256×256 by the proposed method at 50 times iterations.

Fig. 7. (a) RMSE curves of the reconstructed amplitude image at various diffusion ratios. (b) The RMSE curves of the reconstructed phase image at various diffusion ratios.

Fig. 8. Schematic setup used to measure the amplitude of a complex object.

Fig. 9. (a) and (c) Numerical results of the amplitude of the conventional SCMM and the proposed method by iteration 20. (b) and (d) Optical results of the intensity of the conventional SCMM and the proposed method by iteration 20. The phase of the reconstructed object is zero.