Untrained physics-enhanced fully complex transformer for single-frame hologram reconstruction

Single-frame hologram reconstruction without training remains challenging for real-world samples due to the difficulty of modeling coupled amplitude and phase information. To address this issue, we develop a fully complex-domain attention mechanism that reformulates attention computation directly in the complex field using complex inner products, enabling more effective representation of amplitude-phase coupling. Based on this formulation, a general fully complex-domain transformer, termed HoloFormer v3, is constructed and instantiated within an untrained reconstruction framework. An auxiliary free-space back-propagation initialization reformulates the highly nonlinear hologram-to-object complex amplitude inversion as a twin-image-suppressed optimization in the object plane. Experiments on real samples demonstrate improved reconstruction accuracy and faster convergence compared with existing untrained methods.

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Optics Letters
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2026-03-05
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https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.589365
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Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
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Untrained physics-enhanced fully complex transformer for single-frame hologram reconstruction

Ziqi Bai, Junjun Jiang, Cheng Guo
Optics Letters
Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
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Untrained physics-enhanced fully complex transformer for single-frame hologram reconstruction

Ziqi Bai, Junjun Jiang, Cheng Guo
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Abstract

Single-frame hologram reconstruction without training remains challenging for real-world samples due to the difficulty of modeling coupled amplitude and phase information. To address this issue, we develop a fully complex-domain attention mechanism that reformulates attention computation directly in the complex field using complex inner products, enabling more effective representation of amplitude-phase coupling. Based on this formulation, a general fully complex-domain transformer, termed HoloFormer v3, is constructed and instantiated within an untrained reconstruction framework. An auxiliary free-space back-propagation initialization reformulates the highly nonlinear hologram-to-object complex amplitude inversion as a twin-image-suppressed optimization in the object plane. Experiments on real samples demonstrate improved reconstruction accuracy and faster convergence compared with existing untrained methods.

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