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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

Classical ghost imaging has received considerable attention in recent years because of its remarkable ability to image a scene without direct observation by a light-detecting imaging device. In this article, we show that this imaging…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-13 Pradeep Sen

Ghost imaging is a fascinating process, where light interacting with an object is recorded without resolution, but the shape of the object is nevertheless retrieved, thanks to quantum or classical correlations of this interacting light with…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-11 Fabrice Devaux , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Severine Denis , Eric Lantz

Ghost imaging is usually based on optoelectronic process and eletronic computing. We here propose a new ghost imaging scheme, which avoids any optoelectronic or electronic process. Instead, the proposed scheme exploits all-optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-16 Gao Wang , Huaibin Zheng , Yu Zhou , Hui Chen , Jianbin Liu , Yuchen He , Yuan Yuan , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu

The Fourier-Transform ghost imaging of both amplitude-only and pure-phase objects was experimentally observed with classical incoherent light at Fresnel distance by a new lensless scheme. The experimental results are in good agreement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Minghui Zhang , Qing Wei , Xia Shen , Yongfeng Liu , Honglin Liu , Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

In ghost imaging scheme, an illuminated light is split into test and reference beams which pass through two different optical systems respectively and an image is constructed by the second-order correlation between the two light beams.…

Classical ghost imaging is a correlation-imaging technique in which the image of the object is found through intensity correlations of light. We analyze three different quality parameters, namely the visibility, the signal-to-noise ratio…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-29 Henri Kellock , Tero Setälä , Tomohiro Shirai , Ari T. Friberg

Second order intensity correlations of speckle illumination are extensively used in imaging applications that require going beyond the Rayleigh limit. The theoretical analysis shows that significantly improved imaging can be extracted from…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-03 Fu Li , Charles Altuzarra , Tian Li , M. O. Scully , G. S. Agarwal

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…

A recent thermal ghost imaging experiment by Wu's group constructed positive and negative images using a novel algorithm. This algorithm allows to form the images with use of partial measurements from the reference arm, even which never…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-30 Jianming Wen

Ghost imaging is a technique -- first realized in quantum optics -- in which the image emerges from cross-correlation between particles in two separate beams. One beam passes through the object to a bucket (single-pixel) detector, while the…

Ghost imaging is an unconventional optical imaging technique that reconstructs the shape of an object combining the measurement of two signals: one that interacted with the object, but without any spatial information, the other containing…

We introduce and describe a technique for distance sensing, based on second-order interferometry of thermal light. The method is based on measuring correlation between intensity fluctuations on two detectors, and provides estimates of the…

In quantum mechanics, entanglement and correlations are not just a mere sporadic curiosity, but rather common phenomena at the basis of an interacting quantum system. In electron microscopy, such concepts have not been extensively explored…

By means of numerical simulations, we demonstrate the innovative use of computational ghost imaging in transmission electron microscopy to retrieve images with a resolution that overcomes the limitations imposed by coherent aberrations. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-20 P. Rosi , L. Viani , E. Rotunno , S. Frabboni , A. H. Tavabi , R. E. Dunin-Borkowski , A. Roncaglia , V. Grillo

Fourier analysis of ghost imaging (FAGI) is proposed in this paper to analyze the properties of ghost imaging with thermal light sources. This new theory is compatible with the general correlation theory of intensity fluctuation and could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Honglin Liu , Jing Cheng , Yanfeng Bai , Shensheng Han

Ghost imaging allows to image an object without directly seeing this object. Origi- nally demonstrated in the spatial domain using classical or entangled-photon sources, it was recently shown that ghost imaging can be transposed into the…

Non-local point-to-point correlations between two photons have been used to produce "ghost" images without placing the camera towards the object. Here we theoretically demonstrated and analyzed the advantage of non-Gaussian quantum light in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Dongyu Liu , Mingsheng Tian , Shuheng Liu , Xiaolong Dong , Jiajie Guo , Qiongyi He , Haitan Xu , Zheng Li

The resolution of a conventional imaging system based on first-order field correlation can be directly obtained from the optical transfer function. However, it is challenging to determine the resolution of an imaging system through random…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-04 Zhentao Liu , Xia Shen , Honglin Liu , Hong Yu , Shensheng Han

We present a lensless, Fourier-transform ghost imaging scheme by exploring the fourth-order correlation function of spatially incoherent thermal neutron waves. This technique is established on the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Kun Chen , Shensheng Han