We propose a phase coding technique for signal recovery of distorted i
mages, and we demonstrate our results through computer simulations. in
our demonstration we use two forms of distorted images: (1) a misfocu
sed image and (2) a clean image distorted by passage through a thin ab
errating medium. Our results show that even though only a portion of t
he distortion information was used, we can still recover the original
image with a low level of additive noise. The proposed technique opens
up the possibility of using all the available types of spatial light
modulators for these purposes.