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Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the second-order correlation between two light beams to obtain the image of an object. However, standard GI is affected by optical background noise, which reduces its practical use. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Ma-Chi Zhang , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

Ghost imaging (GI) forms images from intensity-correlation data collected by a single-pixel detector, decoupling illumination and sensing. Since its quantum-photon origins, the technique has evolved through classical pseudothermal,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-17 Tong Tian , Sukyoon Oh , Christian Spielmann

Quantum imaging has been demonstrated since 1995 by using entangled photon pairs. The physics community named these experiments "ghost image", "quantum crypto-FAX", "ghost interference", etc. Recently, Bennink et al. simulated the "ghost"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Milena D'Angelo , Yanhua Shih

Ghost imaging is demonstrated using a poly-energetic reactor source of thermal neutrons. The method presented enables position resolution to be incorporated, into a variety of neutron instruments that are not position resolving. In an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Andrew M. Kingston , Glenn R. Myers , Daniele Pelliccia , Filomena Salvemini , Joseph J. Bevitt , Ulf Garbe , David M. Paganin

In this article, we propose the two-photon interference imaging based on two-photon interference mechanism with thermal light source. Theoretical and experimental results show that the imaging quality and imaging speed of two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

A transparent polarisation sensitive phase pattern exhibits a position and polarisation dependent phase shift of transmitted light and it represents a unitary transformation. A quantum ghost image of this pattern is produced with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Aditya Saxena , Manpreet Kaur , Vipin Devrari , Mandip Singh

Novel imaging techniques utilizing nondegenerate, correlated photon pairs sparked intense interest during the last couple of years among scientists of the quantum optics community and beyond. It is a key property of such "ghost imaging" or…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Andras Buzas , Elmar K. Wolff , Mihaly G. Benedict , Pal Ormos , Andras Der

We report the first experimental demonstration of two-photon imaging with a pseudo-thermal source. Similarly to the case of entangled states, a two-photon Gaussian thin lens equation is observed, indicating EPR type correlation in position.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alejandra Valencia , Giuliano Scarcelli , Milena D'Angelo , Y. Shih

Techniques based on classical and quantum correlations in light beams, such as ghost imaging, allow us to overcome many limitations of conventional imaging and sensing protocols. Despite their advantages, applications of such techniques are…

Temporal ghost diffraction (TGD) is observed by taking two-photon cross-correlation in the configuration of reciprocal two-slit diffraction (2SD) where interference fringes develop on the light source side as opposed to the detector side.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-18 Yoshiki O-oka , Susumu Fukatsu

Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the correlation between two light beams to reconstruct the image of an object. Conventional GI algorithms require large memory space to store the measured data and perform complicated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Yi-Pu Liu , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

X-ray imaging allows for a non-invasive image of the internal structure of an object. The most common form of X-ray imaging, projectional radiography, is simply a projection or "shadow" of the object rather than a point-to-point image…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-15 Thomas A. Smith , Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

Classical ghost imaging is a computational imaging technique that employs patterned illumination. It is very similar in concept to the single-pixel camera in that an image may be reconstructed from a set of measurements even though all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Andrew M. Kingston , Wilfred K. Fullagar , Glenn R. Myers , Daishi Adams , Daniele Pelliccia , David M. Paganin

We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from classical correlations. Combining a microscopic analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Sammy Ragy , Gerardo Adesso

We propose and analyze a modified ghost-interference experiment, and show that revealing the particle-nature of a particle passing through a double-slit hides the wave-nature of a spatially separated particle which it is entangled with. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Tabish Qureshi

Certification of nonlocality of quantum mechanics is an important fundamental test that typically requires prolonged data collection and is only revealed in an in-depth analysis. These features are often particularly exposed in hybrid…

Ghost imaging allows image reconstruction by correlation measurements between a light beam that interacts with the object without spatial resolution and a spatially resolved light beam that never interacts with the object. The two light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Da-Peng Zhou , Wei Peng , Liang Chen , Xiaoyi Bao

We investigate experimentally fundamental properties of coherent ghost imaging using spatially incoherent beams generated from a pseudo-thermal source. A complementarity between the coherence of the beams and the correlation between them is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gatti , M. Bache , D. Magatti , E. Brambilla , F. Ferri , L. A. Lugiato

We develop a concept of metasurface-assisted ghost imaging for non-local discrimination between a set of polarization objects. The specially designed metasurfaces are incorporated in the imaging system to perform parallel state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Andres Vega , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Ghost imaging is a non local imaging technology, which can obtain target information by measuring the second-order intensity correlation between the reference light field and the target detection light field. However, the current imaging…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-07 Zhiqing Yang , Cheng Zhou , Gangcheng Wang , Lijun Song