Holographic Imaging of Argon Plasma Images

Abdallah Mohamed Hamed, Mohamed Aly Saudy

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

DOI: 10.4236/opj.2014.46014                

Abstract

A coding and decoding process of argon plasma images using digital holography is proposed. The digital Fourier holography is applied to two images of matrix dimensions 512 × 512 pixels. The decoded images are improved using wiener filtering techniques. We have constructed three basic color images of the original image which is useful to extract the thermal distribution of the plasma image. Also, the profiles of the reconstructed images are checked showing better smooth profiles using wiener filter. The Mat-lab code is applied in the operation of image processing using Fourier techniques.

Keywords

Polychromatic Image Processing of Plasma Images, Fourier Holography, Wiener Filtering

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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