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In this paper, we present the results of rigorous electromagnetic broadband simulations applied to CMOS image sensors as well as experimental measurements. We firstly compare the results of 1D, 2D, and 3D broadband simulations in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-17 A. Crocherie , Jérôme Vaillant , F. Hirigoyen

3D imaging is increasingly impacting areas such as space, defense, automation, medical and automotive industries. The most well-known optical 3D imaging systems are LIDAR systems that rely on Time of Flight (ToF) measurement. The depth…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-21 Koray Ürkmen , Emre Yüce

X-ray "ghost" imaging has drawn great attention for its potential to lower radiation dose in medical diagnosis. For practical implementation, however, the efficiency and image quality have to be greatly improved. Here we demonstrate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-28 Yu-Hang He , Ai-Xin Zhang , Ming-Fei Li , Yi-Yi Huang , Bao-Gang Quan , Da-Zhang Li , Ling-An Wu , Li-Ming Chen

Ghost imaging can capture 2D images with a point detector instead of an array sensor. It therefore offers a solution to the challenge of building area format sensors in wavebands where such sensors are difficult and expensive to produce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , Fei Dong , David McGloin

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

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

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Margie P. Olbinado , David M. Paganin , Yin Cheng , Alexander Rack

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 long time consumption is a bottleneck for the applicability of the ghost imaging (GI). By introducing a criterion for the convergence of GI, we investigate a factor that impacts on the convergence speed of it. Based on computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Minghui Zhang

Radar sensors are an important part of driver assistance systems and intelligent vehicles due to their robustness against all kinds of adverse conditions, e.g., fog, snow, rain, or even direct sunlight. This robustness is achieved by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Florian Kraus , Nicolas Scheiner , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer

We show that, when the integration time of the single photon detectors is longer than the correlation time of the biphoton, the attainable spatial resolution in ghost imaging with entangled signal idler pairs generated in type II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 J. Reintjes , Mark Bashkansky

Coherent LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) is a promising 3D imaging technology that provides significant advantages over more traditional LiDAR systems. In addition to being immune to ambient light, it directly measures the velocity of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Alexander Y. Piggott

In this paper, we propose a theoretical scheme of ghost imaging in terms of $N$th-order correlated thermal light. We obtain the Gaussian thin lens equations in the ghost imaging protocol. We show that it is possible to produce $N-1$ ghost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 Ying-Chuan Liu , Le-Man Kuang

Assessing the presence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats is a crucial task which is usually dealt with by analyzing the presence of spectral features in a measured absorption profile. The use of quantum light allows…

LiDAR-based 3D detection plays a vital role in autonomous navigation. Surprisingly, although autonomous vehicles (AVs) must detect both near-field objects (for collision avoidance) and far-field objects (for longer-term planning),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Neehar Peri , Mengtian Li , Benjamin Wilson , Yu-Xiong Wang , James Hays , Deva Ramanan

Quantum correlations become formidable tools for beating classical capacities of measurement. Preserving these advantages in practical systems, where experimental imperfections are unavoidable, is a challenge of the utmost importance. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Elena Losero , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Alice Meda , Alessio Avella , Olga Sambataro , Marco Genovese

LiDAR (laser based radar) systems are a major part of many new real-world interactive systems, one of the most notable being autonomous cars. The current market LiDAR systems are limited by detector sensitivity: when output power is at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Yoni Sher , Lior Cohen , Daniel Istrati , Hagai S. Eisenberg

Ghost imaging radar is a new system of gaze imaging radar with high detection sensitivity, super-resolution and better anti-interference performance, but the relative motion between the radar system and the target will make the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Yuliang Li

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 report the first (to our knowledge) experimental demonstration of lensless ghost imaging with true thermal light. Although there is no magnification, the method is suitable for all wavelengths and so may find special applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi-Hao Chen , Qian Liu , Kai-Hong Luo , Ling-An Wu