Modelling a Holographic Particle Counter

In order to design an imaging unit of a novel holographic particle counter an aerosol particle model was developed to generate a virtual hologram plane of an aerosol volume of interest. The herein presented model combines the three essential components to help dimensioning a target detection unit: (i) an In-Line holography model with a reference light source and a basic transfer function of an imager to take into account imager size, pixel pitch and exposure time; (ii) an aerosol particle model with particles of variable count, size and spatial distribution; and (iii) the possibility to import fluid dynamics simulation data to simulate the particle flow in an arbitrary sampling volume