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Ghost imaging was first demonstrated with entangled photon pairs and well-known for its peculiar properties. The signal beam that illuminates the object possesses no spatial resolution, whereas the reference beam, which never interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Meixue Chen , Yiqi Song , Yu Gu , Huafan Zhang , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

High-resolution ghost image and ghost diffraction experiments are performed by using a single source of thermal-like speckle light divided by a beam splitter. Passing from the image to the diffraction result solely relies on changing the…

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

Ghost imaging (GI) is a potential imaging technique that reconstructs the target scene from its correlated measurements with a sequential of patterns. Restricted by the multi-shot principle, GI usually requires long acquisition time and is…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-12 Chao Deng , Yuwang Wang , Jinli Suo , Zhili Zhang , Qionghai Dai

X-ray imaging is widely employed in clinical medicine, industrial inspection, and various scientific research fields. Unfortunately, most currently used X-ray two-dimensional (2D) detectors suffer from a fundamental trade-off between the…

Hard x-ray imaging is indispensable across diverse fields owing to its high penetrability. However, the resolution of traditional x-ray imaging modalities, such as computed tomography (CT) systems, is constrained by factors including beam…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 O. Sefi , A. Ben Yehuda , Y. Klein , S. Bloch , H. Schwartz , E. Cohen , S. Shwartz

Ghost tomography using single-pixel detection extends the emerging field of ghost imaging to three dimensions, with the use of penetrating radiation. In this work, a series of spatially random x-ray intensity patterns is used to illuminate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Andrew. M. Kingston , Daniele Pelliccia , Alexander Rack , Margie P. Olbinado , Yin Cheng , Glenn R. Myers , David M. Paganin

Ghost imaging is demonstrated using a poly-energetic reactor source of thermal neutrons. The method presented enables position resolution to be incorporated, into a variety of neutron instruments that are not position resolving. In an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Andrew M. Kingston , Glenn R. Myers , Daniele Pelliccia , Filomena Salvemini , Joseph J. Bevitt , Ulf Garbe , David M. Paganin

Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro

For conventional imaging, shaking of the imaging system or the target leads to the degradation of imaging resolution. In this work, the influence of the target's shaking to fourier-transform ghost diffraction (FGD) is investigated. The…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-22 Cong Zhang , Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Ghost imaging allows to image an object without directly seeing this object. Origi- nally demonstrated in the spatial domain using classical or entangled-photon sources, it was recently shown that ghost imaging can be transposed into the…

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 propose an interaction-free ghost imaging scheme based on a thermal light source. By utilizing the quantum Zeno-like effect, our approach significantly reduces the light dose absorbed by the sample, thereby effectively preventing sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Shun Li , Jing-Yang Xiao Feng , Xiu-Qing Yang , Xiaodong Zeng , Xi-Hua Yang , M. Al-Amri , Zheng-Hong Li

Ghost imaging uses two light beams correlated in the transverse position, time, or frequency to create an image of a spatial, temporal, or spectral object. We propose a scheme of time-to-space ghost imaging for creating a spatial image of a…

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

A special algorithm for the Fourier-transform Ghost Imaging (GI) scheme is discussed based on the Compressive Sampling (CS) theory. The CS algorithm could also be used for the Fourier spectrum reconstruction of pure phase object by setting…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Hui Wang , Shensheng Han

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

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

By means of numerical simulations, we demonstrate the innovative use of computational ghost imaging in transmission electron microscopy to retrieve images with a resolution that overcomes the limitations imposed by coherent aberrations. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-20 P. Rosi , L. Viani , E. Rotunno , S. Frabboni , A. H. Tavabi , R. E. Dunin-Borkowski , A. Roncaglia , V. Grillo

While transmission electron microscopes (TEM) can achieve a much higher resolution than optical microscopes, they face challenges of damage to samples during the high energy processes involved. Here, we explore using computational ghost…