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Ghost imaging is a developing imaging technique that employs random masks to image a sample. Ghost projection utilizes ghost-imaging concepts to perform the complementary procedure of projection of a desired image. The key idea underpinning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 David Ceddia , David M. Paganin

Ghost imaging incorporating deep learning technology has recently attracted much attention in the optical imaging field. However, deterministic illumination and multiple exposure are still essential in most scenarios. Here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruiguo Zhu , Hong Yu , Zhijie Tan , Ronghua Lu , Shensheng Han , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang

Computational ghost imaging generally requires a large number of pattern illumination to obtain a high-quality image. The colored noise speckle pattern was recently proposed to substitute the white noise pattern in a variety of noisy…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xiaoyu Nie , Xingchen Zhao , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

We demonstrate a different scheme to perform optical sectioning of a sample based on the concept of induced coherence [Zou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 318 (1991)]. This can be viewed as a different type of optical coherence tomography…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Adam Vallés , Gerard Jiménez , Luis José Salazar-Serrano , Juan P. Torres

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

Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the second-order correlation between two light beams to obtain the image of an object. However, standard GI is affected by optical background noise, which reduces its practical use. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Ma-Chi Zhang , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

In this chapter a general mathematical model of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented on the basis of the electromagnetic theory. OCT produces high resolution images of the inner structure of biological tissues. Images are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

Correlated-photon imaging, popularly known as ghost imaging, is a technique whereby an image is formed from light that has never interacted with the object. In ghost imaging experiments two correlated light fields are produced. One of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Reuben S. Aspden , Daniel S. Tasca , Robert W. Boyd , Miles J. Padgett

Classical ghost imaging is a computational imaging technique that employs patterned illumination. It is very similar in concept to the single-pixel camera in that an image may be reconstructed from a set of measurements even though all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Andrew M. Kingston , Wilfred K. Fullagar , Glenn R. Myers , Daishi Adams , Daniele Pelliccia , David M. Paganin

In the conventional ghost imaging (GI), the image is retrieved by correlating the reference intensity fluctuation at a charge-coupled device (CCD) with the signal intensity fluctuation at a bucket detector. In this letter, we present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Huan Zhao , Xiao-Qian Wang , Chao Gao , Zhuo Yu , Shuang Wang , Li-Dan Gou , Zhi-Hai Yao

Ghost projection is the reversed process of computational classical ghost imaging that allows any desired image to be synthesized using a linear combination of illuminating patterns. Typically, physical attenuating masks are used to produce…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 James A. Monro , Andrew M. Kingston , David M. Paganin

Traditional ghost imaging experiments exploit position correlations between correlated states of light. These correlations occur directly in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), and in such a scenario, the two-photon state used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nicholas Bornman , Shashi Prabhakar , Adam Vallés , Jonathan Leach , Andrew Forbes

We report on an experimental observation of a two-photon ghost interference experiment. A distinguishing feature of our experiment is that the photons are generated via a non-degenerated spontaneous four-wave mixing process in a hot atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Bao-Sen Shi , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

We present a practical experimental realization of transmission x-ray ghost imaging using synchrotron light. Hard x-rays from an undulator were split by a Si 200 crystal in Laue geometry to produce two copies of a speckled incident beam.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Daniele Pelliccia , Margie P. Olbinado , Alexander Rack , David M. Paganin

Computational ghost imaging retrieves the spatial information of a scene using a single pixel detector. By projecting a series of known random patterns and measuring the back reflected intensity for each one, it is possible to reconstruct a…

The ghost imaging (GI) technique, which has attracted attention as a highly sensitive and noise-resistant technique, employs a spatially modulated illuminating light and a single-pixel detector. Generally, the information acquired by GI is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-23 Shuhei Yoshida

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

We introduce an absorption imaging technique for ultracold gases that suppresses interference fringes and coherence-induced artifacts by reducing the transverse spatial coherence of the imaging light. The method preserves the narrow…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-16 Julia Fekete , Poppy Joshi , Peter Krüger , Fedja Oručević

The Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful interferometric imaging technique widely used in medical fields such as ophthalmology, cardiology and dermatology, for which footprint and cost are becoming increasingly important. Here…

We show that a recently discussed apparatus for aberration-cancelled interferometry may be modified to perform correlated-photon imaging in the so-called "ghost" imaging configuration. For objects in the vicinity of a particular plane, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-18 D. S. Simon , A. V. Sergienko