High‐resolution incoherent interference imaging without phase measurement

Abstract Aiming for long‐distance, high‐resolution, passive imaging, we use fiber coupling to replace the spatial coupling of the segmented planar imaging detector for electro‐optical reconnaissance imaging system and propose a novel incoherent interference imaging method, which avoids the problem that the resolution of the imaging system is limited by the size of the silicon wafer. The method uses a phase retrieval algorithm and does not need to measure the phase in the system, effectively avoiding the intrinsic jitter problem of fiber optics. The feasibility of the method in achieving target image reconstruction was verified through simulation; furthermore, an indoor two‐dimensional discrete sampling imaging experiment for a simple four‐rod target was conducted, and an outdoor one‐dimensional feature identification experiment for a two‐rod target was also performed. The results showed that the resolution exceeds the diffraction limit and the reconstruction error of target size is less than 3.5%.