Patent ID: 8913149

Claim:
A method for imaging, the method comprising: forming a collective image, the forming comprising: providing an illumination beam to an object so as to yield interaction light resulting from interaction between the illumination beam and the object; directing at least some of the interaction light as an imaging beam to an imaging sensor so as to form an image of the object on the imaging sensor; and interfering at least a portion of the interaction light with a reference beam thereby forming an interference pattern imaged on the image sensor, the interference pattern combining with the image of the object at the imaging sensor to form the collective image having a Fourier transform that includes a side lobe in Fourier space, the side lobe having phase information about a range of the object's spatial frequencies; and repeating the forming at different orientations between the imaging beam and the object until a plurality of collective images are obtained, each of the collective images having a different range of the object's spatial frequency.