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Quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT) makes use of an entangled-photon light source to carry out dispersion-immune axial optical sectioning. We present the first experimental QOCT images of a biological sample: an onion-skin tissue…

Recent advances in the field of attosecond science hold the promise of tracking electronic processes at the shortest space and time scales. Imaging methods that combine attosecond temporal with nanometer spatial resolution are currently out…

We demonstrate spectroscopy of incoherent light with sub-diffraction resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment we analyze the spectrum of a pair of incoherent point-like sources whose separation is below the diffraction limit. The two…

Imaging the full-field microvibration of extended targets remains a formidable challenge for conventional remote sensing. Traditional array-based sensors are often severely constrained by data throughput and sensitivity limits when scaling…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-02 Shuang Liu , Jinquan Qi , Chaoran Wang , Chenjin Deng , Shensheng Han

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

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 present an experimental demonstration of quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT). The technique makes use of an entangled twin-photon light source to carry out axial optical sectioning. QOCT is compared to conventional optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Magued B. Nasr , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Alexander V. Sergienko , Malvin C. Teich

Computer-generated hologram (CGH) allows for the on-demand scaling and projection of artificially designed target patterns, while incorporating benefits such as a lensless setup and high-frame-rate operation. In this work, we actively…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Liming Li , Zhenguo Zhao , Gongxiang Wei , Wenfei Zhang , Huiqiang Liu

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) was originally conceived as a volumetric imaging method. Quickly, OCT images went beyond structural data and started to provide functional information about an object enabling for example visualization of…

An experimental study is conducted to show the effect of the change in bandwidth of light on the spectral degree of coherence at a pair of points in the cross-section of a beam. For this purpose a polychromatic source and a monochromator…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-21 Bhaskar Kanseri , Hem Chandra Kandpal

Non-degenerate wavelength computational ghost imaging with thermal light source is studied theoretically and experimentally. The acquired computational ghost images are of high quality when the wavelength of computed light is different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Deyang Duan , Zhongxiao Man , Yunjie Xia

We provide a unified treatment of classical and quantum Gaussian-state sources that unambiguously identifies which features of ghost imaging are strictly quantum mechanical. We show that ghost-image formation is fundamentally classical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

An approach to ghost imaging with a single SPAD array used simultaneously as a several-pixel "bucket" detector and an imaging camera is described. The key points of the approach are filtering data frames used for ghost-image reconstruction…

We study the influence rules of the speckle size of light source on ghost imaging, and propose a new type of speckle patterns to improve the quality of ghost imaging. The results show that the image quality will first increase and then…

Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-17 Ajinkya Kadu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

We present a theoretical study of ghost imaging by using blackbody radiation source. A Gaussian thin lens equation for the ghost imaging, which depends on both paths, is derived. The dependences of the visibility and quality of the image on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yangjian Cai , Shiyao Zhu

The intensity levels allowed by safety standards (ANSI or ICNIRP) limit the amount of light that can be used in a clinical setting to image highly scattering or absorptive tissues with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). To achieve…

Computational ghost imaging has been demonstrated experimentally recently. In this comment we wish to clarify the difference between pseudothermal ghost imaging (PGI) and computational ghost imaging (CGI). In particular, to emphasize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 Morton H. Rubin

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

We present a lensless, Fourier-transform ghost imaging scheme by exploring the fourth-order correlation function of spatially incoherent thermal neutron waves. This technique is established on the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Kun Chen , Shensheng Han