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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

We report the first experimental demonstration of two-photon imaging with a pseudo-thermal source. Similarly to the case of entangled states, a two-photon Gaussian thin lens equation is observed, indicating EPR type correlation in position.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alejandra Valencia , Giuliano Scarcelli , Milena D'Angelo , Y. Shih

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

Using the FDTD method, we investigate the electromagnetic propagation in two-dimensional photonic crystals, formed by parallel air cylinders in a dielectric medium. The corresponding frequency band structure is computed using the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hung-Ta Chien , Hui-Ting Tang , Chao-Hsien Kuo , Chii-Chang Chen , Zhen Ye

Two-photon states generated through degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) can exhibit sharp correlations in the transverse spatial coordinates. This property leads to unique free-space propagation features. Here, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Nazanin Dehghan , Alessio D'Errico , Yingwen Zhang , Benjamin Sussman , Ebrahim Karimi

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

The nature of two-photon interference is a subject that has aroused renewed interest in recent years and is still under debate. In this paper we report the first observation of two-photon interference with independent pseudo-thermal sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yan-Hua Zhai , Xi-Hao Chen , Ling-An Wu

This dissertation is concerned with understanding and analyzing some of the effects of diffraction in the near field. The contributions of homogeneous and of evanescent waves to two-dimensional near-field diffraction patterns of scalar…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek W. Kowarz

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

We present a robust imaging method based on time-correspondence imaging and normalized ghost imaging (GI) that sets two thresholds to select the reference frame exposures for image reconstruction. This double-threshold time-correspondence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 Ming-Fei Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Xue-Feng Liu , Xu-Ri Yao , Kai-Hong Luo , Heng Fan , Ling-An Wu

Time-frequency duality, which enables control of optical waveforms by manipulating amplitudes and phases of electromagnetic fields, plays a pivotal role in a wide range of modern optics. The conventional one-dimensional (1D) time-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Rui-Bo Jin , Takuma Saito , Ryosuke Shimizu

Physical systems in the time domain may exhibit analogous phenomena in real space, such as time crystals, time-domain Fresnel lenses, and modulational interference in a qubit. Here we report the experimental realization of time-domain…

The rapid advancement of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models has enabled the creation of highly realistic synthetic images, presenting significant societal risks, such as misinformation and deception. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiazhen Yan , Ziqiang Li , Fan Wang , Ziwen He , Zhangjie Fu

In the last few decades, interference has been extensively studied in both the quantum and classical fields, which reveals light volatility and is widely used for high-precision measurements. We have put forward the phenomenon in which the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 Keyu Pan , Xiumei Wang , Xizhou Shen , Haoyi Zhou , Xingping Zhou

The theory of ghost imaging is developed in a Gaussian-state framework that both encompasses prior work - on thermal-state and biphoton-state imagers - and provides a complete understanding of the boundary between classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

A three-slit ghost interference experiment with entangled photons is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. A non-local duality relation is derived which connects the path distinguishability of one photon to the interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mohd Asad Siddiqui

We report on the experimental findings of a thin-slit grid diffraction of a coherent light beam with sinusoidal amplitude. We create the sinusoidal amplitude by placing a thin-slit grid at the center of the dark fringes of an interference…

Optics · Physics 2008-05-05 Robert Buonpastore , Ernst Knoesel , Eduardo Flores

We propose a experimental scenario of edge enhancement ghost imaging of phase objects with nonlocal orbital angular momentum (OAM) phase filters. Spatially incoherent thermal light is separated into two daughter beams, the test and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Hanquan Song , Zhidan Yuan , Yuhang Ren , Dayu Zhao , Zili Zhang , Zhiyuan Zheng , Lu Gao

Temporal diffraction from rapidly time-modulated materials can generate new frequency components not present in an incident wave. In such an experiment, the spectral extent of these new frequencies is determined by the rate of modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 E. Hendry , C. M. Hooper , W. P. Wardley , S. A. R. Horsley

We experimentally demonstrate Time-Resolved Nonlinear Ghost Imaging and its ability to perform hyperspectral imaging in difficult-to-access wavelength regions, such as the Terahertz domain. We operate by combining nonlinear quadratic sparse…