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Ghost imaging leverages a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution to acquire object echo intensity signals, which are correlated with illumination patterns to reconstruct an image. This architecture inherently mitigates scattering…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yue-Gang Li , Ze Zheng , Jun-jie Wang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Tailong Xiao , Guihua Zeng

We present a new technique, iterative fluctuation ghost imaging (IFGI) which dramatically enhances the resolution of ghost imaging (GI). It is shown that, by the fluctuation characteristics of the second-order correlation function, the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-25 Huan Zhao , Xiao-Qian Wang , Chao Gao , Zhuo Yu , Hong Wang , Yu Wang , Li-Dan Gou , Zhi-Hai Yao

Arbitrary Nth-order ($N\geq2$) lensless ghost imaging with thermal light has been performed for the first time by only recording the intensities in two optical paths. It is shown that the image visibility can be dramatically enhanced as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xi-Hao Chen , Ivan N. Agafonov , Kai-Hong Luo , Qian Liu , Rui Xian , Maria V. Chekhova , Ling-An Wu

We consider a modification of the classical ghost imaging scheme where an image of the research object is formed and acquired in the object arm. It is used alongside the ghost image to produce an estimate of the transmittance distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky

Recently it has been suggested that an enhancement in the visibility of ghost images obtained with thermal light can be achieved exploiting higher order correlations [3]. This paper reports on the status of an higher order ghost imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , G. A. Fornaro , M. Genovese , A. Meda

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

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

One of the most surprising consequences of quantum mechanics is the nonlocal multi-particle interference observable in joint-detection of distant particle-detectors. Ghost imaging is one of such phenomena. Two types of ghost imaging have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Yanhua Shih

Ghost tomography using single-pixel detection extends the emerging field of ghost imaging to three dimensions, with the use of penetrating radiation. In this work, a series of spatially random x-ray intensity patterns is used to illuminate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Andrew. M. Kingston , Daniele Pelliccia , Alexander Rack , Margie P. Olbinado , Yin Cheng , Glenn R. Myers , David M. Paganin

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

In thermal light ghost imaging, the correlation orders were usually positive integers in previous studies. In this paper, we examine the fractional-order moments, whose correlation order are fractional numbers, between the bucket and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 De-Zhong Cao , Qing-Chen Li , Xu-Cai Zhuang , Cheng Ren , Su-Heng Zhang , Xin-Bing Song

We present a framework for computational ghost imaging based on deep learning and customized pink noise speckle patterns. The deep neural network in this work, which can learn the sensing model and enhance image reconstruction quality, is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Haotian Song , Xiaoyu Nie , Hairong Su , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Xingchen Zhao , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

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

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

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…

In particle image velocimetry (PIV) the measurement signal is contained in the recorded intensity of the particle image pattern superimposed on a variety of noise sources. The signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) strength governs the resulting PIV…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhenyu Xue , John J. Charonko , Pavlos P. Vlachos

The currently used ghost image schemes traditionally involve two-mode entangled light states or incoherent radiation. Here, application of four-mode entangled light states is considered. It is shown that multiplexed ghost images (MGI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Dmitriy Balakin , Alexander Belinsky , Anatoly S. Chirkin

Ghost imaging is a quantum optics technique that uses correlations between two beams to reconstruct an image in one beam from photons that do not interact with the object being imaged. While pairwise (second order) correlations are usually…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 Sean S. Hodgman , Wei Bu , Sacha B. Mann , Roman I. Khakimov , Andrew G. Truscott

For ghost imaging, pursuing high resolution images and short acquisition times required for reconstructing images are always two main goals. We report an image reconstruction algorithm called compressive sampling (CS) reconstruction to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a {\em pure phase} object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The…

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