Multiple motion picture recording in light-in-flight recording by holography with an angular multiplexing technique

Abstract

Light-in-flight recording by holography (LIF holography) is an ultrafast imaging technique for recording light pulse propagation as a motion picture. In this study, we propose and demonstrate multiple motion picture recordings of light pulse propagation by use of LIF holography with angular multiplexing. We set incident angles of reference light pulses to remove the difficulty in adjusting the optical path length difference between an object light pulse and reference light pulses and the complexity of the optical system. In the experiment, by using LIF holography with angular multiplexing, we succeeded in recording a propagating light pulse as two motion pictures with durations of 129.6 ps without an inseparable superimposition of the reconstructed images. In addition, cross talk between the recorded images, noise caused by cross-terms in an image plane, and the number of motion pictures that can be recorded are discussed.