Polarization holographic microscope system and sample image acquisition method using the same

A polarization holographic microscope system comprising:

• a light source unit irradiating laser beams having different polarization directions;
• a beam splitting unit splitting the laser beams from the light source unit into a sample beam and a reference beam;
• a sample image forming unit controlling the angle of the sample beam from the beam splitting unit and allowing the sample beam to enter a sample to form images of the sample at different angles in the sample beam;
• a multiple image forming unit diffracting the sample beam having passed through the sample image forming unit to form multiple images in each of the images at different angles;
• a linear polarizing filter unit polarizing the sample beam having passed through the multiple image forming unit;
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• an interference image acquisition unit combining the sample beam having passed through the linear polarizing filter unit with the reference beam to acquire interference images at different angles,
• wherein each of the interference images at different angles comprises multiple interference images having different polarization states,
• wherein the polarization holographic microscope system further comprises an image analysis unit acquiring a birefringence image and a three-dimensional cross-sectional image of the sample using the interference images at different angles acquired in the interference image acquisition unit, and
• wherein the image analysis unit calculates the interference images at different angles using the Jones matrix method to acquire matrix images of the sample at different angles, the matrix images at different angles comprise multiple amplitude matrix images at different angles and multiple phase matrix images at different angles, each of the amplitude matrix images at different angles comprises multiple amplitude images, and each of the phase matrix images at different angles comprises multiple phase images.