Characterization of color cross-talk of CCD detectors and its influence in multispectral quantitative phase imaging 1,2,3 1 1,2 1 AZEEM AHMAD , ANAND KUMAR , VISHESH DUBEY , ANKIT BUTOLA , 2 1,4 BALPREET SINGH AHLUWALIA , DALIP SINGH MEHTA 1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India 2Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø 9037, Norway
[email protected] [email protected] Abstract: Multi-spectral quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging imaging modality for wavelength dependent studies of several biological and industrial specimens. Simultaneous multi-spectral QPI is generally performed with color CCD cameras. However, color CCD cameras are suffered from the color crosstalk issue, which needed to be explored. Here, we present a new approach for accurately measuring the color crosstalk of 2D area detectors, without needing prior information about camera specifications. Color crosstalk of two different cameras commonly used in QPI, single chip CCD (1-CCD) and three chip CCD (3-CCD), is systematically studied and compared using compact interference microscopy. The influence of color crosstalk on the fringe width and the visibility of the monochromatic constituents corresponding to three color channels of white light interferogram are studied both through simulations and experiments. It is observed that presence of color crosstalk changes the fringe width and visibility over the imaging field of view. This leads to an unwanted non-uniform background error in the multi-spectral phase imaging of the specimens. It is demonstrated that the color crosstalk of the detector is the key limiting factor for phase measurement accuracy of simultaneous multi-spectral QPI systems.