“…The resulting interferogram is processed to extract the phase distribution of the object. Multimodal imaging methods involving the measurement of both amplitude and phase have been developed, but require a dual beam approach [ 15 , 16 ], coded aperture methods [ 17 , 18 ], Lloyd’s mirror [ 19 ] and low-coherence two beam holography techniques [ 20 ]. In all the above techniques, many optical components such as lenses, prisms, beam splitters, polarizers, etc., are needed for beam splitting, combining and for creation of interference patterns.…”