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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.…

We use trajectory calculations to successfully explain two-photon "ghost" diffraction, a phenomenon previously explained via quantum mechanical entanglement. The diffraction patterns are accumulated one photon pair at a time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bill Dalton

We show a simple yet effective method that can be used to characterize the per pixel quantum efficiency and temporal resolution of a single photon event camera for quantum imaging applications. Utilizing photon pairs generated through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 Victor Vidyapin , Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

The ability to determine the joint spectral properties of photon pairs produced by the processes of spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) and spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) is crucial for guaranteeing the usability of heralded…

We report the reconstruction of a transparency image in Ghost diffraction scheme using a statistical optics approach. This is implemented by using a static diffuser rather than a pseudo thermal light source with a rotating diffuser. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Manisha , Vipin Tiwari , Nandan S Bisht , Bhargab Das , Rakesh Kumar Singh

High-dimensional biphoton states are promising resources for quantum applications, ranging from high-dimensional quantum communications to quantum imaging. A pivotal task is fully characterising these states, which is generally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Danilo Zia , Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Fabio Sciarrino , Ebrahim Karimi

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a widely used process to prepare entangled photon pairs. In SPDC, a second-order nonlinear crystal is pumped by a coherent laser beam to generate photon pairs. The photon pairs are usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Richard Bernecker , Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Stephan Fritzsche

Due to their strict photon-number correlation, the twin beams produced in parametric down-conversion (PDC) work well for heralded state generation. Often, however, this state manipulation is distorted by the optical losses in the herald and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 K. Laiho , M. Schmidt , H. Suchomel , M. Kamp , S. Höfling , C. Schneider , J. Beyer , G. Weihs , S. Reitzenstein

Computational ghost imaging (CGI) has recently been intensively studied as an indirect imaging technique. However, the speed of CGI cannot meet the requirements of practical applications. Here, we propose a novel CGI scheme for high-speed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Hao Zhang , Deyang Duan

We present a theoretical analysis of the process of spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) in a non-linear crystal characterized by a linearly-chirped X(2) grating along the direction of propagation. Our analysis leads to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 X. Sanchez-Lozano , Jose Luis Lucio

We demonstrate a method for time gating the standard heralded continuous- wave (cw) spontaneous parametric down-converted (SPDC) single photon source by using pulsed pumping of the optical parametric oscillator (OPO) below threshold. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 B. Melholt Nielsen , J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen , E. S. Polzik

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is one of the most versatile nonlinear optical techniques for the generation of entangled and correlated single-photon pairs. However, it suffers from very poor efficiency leading to extremely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Boyuan Jin , Dhananjay Mishra , Christos Argyropoulos

It has been shown that with the use of ultra-wideband (UWB) electromagnetic signal and time of arrival (ToA) principle, it is possible to locate medical implants given the permittivity distribution of the body. We propose a new imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Tao Feng

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

Nowadays the world has entered into the digital age, in which the data analysis and visualization have become more and more important. In analogy to imaging the real object, we demonstrate that the computational ghost imaging can image the…

The ghost interference observed for entangled photons is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. It is shown that ghost interference is a combined effect of virtual double-slit creation due to entanglement, and quantum erasure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tabish Qureshi , Pravabati Chingangbam , Sheeba Shafaq

We propose a multidimensional quantum information encoding approach based on temporal modulation of single photons, where the Hilbert space can be spanned by an in-principle infinite set of orthonormal temporal profiles. We analyze two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-03 Alex Hayat , Xingxing Xing , Amir Feizpour , Aephraim M. Steinberg

Temporal Ghost Imaging (TGI), which reconstructs fast temporal signals using a slow detector, holds significant potential in optical communication, high-speed imaging, and quantum information processing. However, achieving high-quality…

When use the image mutual information to assess the quality of reconstructed image in pseudo-thermal light ghost imaging, a negative exponential behavior with respect to the measurement number is observed. Based on information theory and a…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-01 Junhui Li , Bin Luo , Dongyue Yang , Longfie Yin , Guohua Wu , Hong Guo

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