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A quantitative analysis of the effect on image reconstruction of discarding the amplitude information contained in a wavefront reflected by a diffusely reflecting, coherently illuminated surface is given. The image reconstruction from a phase record alone is analyzed for the perfect and imperfect phase-matching cases.
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Dorian Kermisch (1970) studied this question.
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