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Ghost imaging enables the imaging of an object using intensity correlations between a single-pixel detector placed behind the object and a camera that records light that did not interact with the object. The object and the camera are often…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-12 Edward Tananyan , Ohad Lib , Michal Zimmerman , Yaron Bromberg

The production of pairs of entangled photons simply by focusing a laser beam onto a crystal with a non-linear optical response was used to test quantum mechanics and to open new approaches in imaging. The development of the latter was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

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

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…

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

Correspondence imaging can achieve positive-negative ghost images by just conditional averaging of partial patterns, without treating bucket intensities as weights. To explain its imaging mechanism, we develop a probability theory assuming…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-01 Jian Leng , Wen-Kai Yu , Shuo-Fei Wang

Understanding the impact of disturbances in quantum channels is of paramount importance for the implementation of many quantum technologies, as noise can be detrimental to quantum correlations. Among the various types of disturbances, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Linda Sansoni , Eleonora Stefanutti , Andrea Chiuri

We study theoretically how multiple scattering of light in a disordered medium can spontaneously generate quantum correlations. In particular we focus on the case where the input state is Gaussian and characterize the correlations between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Ilya Starshynov , Jacopo Bertolotti , Janet Anders

Ghost imaging (GI) is an intriguing imaging technology which achieves the object images through intensity correlation between reference patterns and bucket signal. Here, we propose a probability model to explain the imaging mechanism of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wen-Kai Yu , Jian Leng

We propose an interaction-free ghost imaging scheme based on a thermal light source. By utilizing the quantum Zeno-like effect, our approach significantly reduces the light dose absorbed by the sample, thereby effectively preventing sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Shun Li , Jing-Yang Xiao Feng , Xiu-Qing Yang , Xiaodong Zeng , Xi-Hua Yang , M. Al-Amri , Zheng-Hong Li

Ghost imaging with thermal fermions is calculated based on two-particle interference in Feynman's path integral theory. It is found that ghost imaging with thermal fermions can be simulated by ghost imaging with thermal bosons and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Jianbin Liu , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Hui Chen , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

A quantum illumination protocol exploits correlated light beams to enhance the probability of detection of a partially reflecting object lying in a very noisy background. Recently a simple photon-number-detection based implementation of a…

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.…

In this paper it is shown that the key to understanding the ghost imaging mystery are the crossing symmetric photon reactions in the nonlinear media. Then, an intuitive mechanism for the description of the ghost imaging in terms of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-01 D. B. Ion , M. L. Ion , L. Rusu

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

In ghost imaging schemes information about an object is extracted by measuring the correlation between a beam that passed the object and a reference beam. We present a spatial averaging technique that substantially improves the imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bache , E. Brambilla , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato

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

We establish a quantum theory of computational ghost imaging and propose quantum projection imaging where object information can be reconstructed by quantum statistical correlation between a certain photon number of bucket signal and DMD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 De-Zhong Cao , Su-Heng Zhang , Ya-Nan Zhao , Cheng Ren , Jun Zhang , Baolai Liang , Baoqing Sun , Kaige Wang

Ghost imaging uses two light beams correlated in the transverse position, time, or frequency to create an image of a spatial, temporal, or spectral object. We propose a scheme of time-to-space ghost imaging for creating a spatial image of a…

In this paper it is proved that the key to understanding the ghost imaging mystery are the crossing symmetric photon reactions in the nonlinear media. Hence, the laws of the plane quantum mirror (QM) and that of spherical quantum mirror,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. B. Ion , M. L. Ion , L. Rusu