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Optical angular momentum (OAM) in light beams is manifested as the two-dimensional spatial distribution of its complex amplitude, necessitating a 2D detector for its measurement. Here we present a novel speckle-based machine learning…

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We report the first (to our knowledge) experimental demonstration of lensless ghost imaging with true thermal light. Although there is no magnification, the method is suitable for all wavelengths and so may find special applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xi-Hao Chen , Qian Liu , Kai-Hong Luo , Ling-An Wu

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

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

We address parametric-downconversion seeded by multimode pseudo-thermal fields. We show that this process may be used to generate multimode pairwise correlated states with entanglement properties that can be tuned by controlling the seed…

Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains…

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…

Ewald sphere curvature correction, which extends beyond the projection approximation, stretches the shallow depth of field in cryo-EM reconstructions of thick particles. Here we show that even for previously assumed thin particles,…

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Nondegenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) process based on a double-$\Lambda$ scheme in hot alkali metal vapor is a versatile tool in quantum state engineering, quantum imaging, and quantum precision measurements. In this Letter, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 Wei Liu , Rong Ma , Li Zeng , Zhongzhong Qin , Xiaolong Su

Using no conventional measurements in position space, information extraction rates exceeding one bit per photon are achieved by employing high-dimensional correlated orbital angular momentum (OAM) states for object recognition. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Casey A. Fitzpatrick , David S. Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

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 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

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

It is shown that the use of phase conjugation in one arm of a correlated two-photon imaging apparatus allows undistorted ghost imaging through a region with randomly-varying phase shifts. The images are formed from correlated pairs of…

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We present an entanglement-based quantitative phase gradient microscopy technique that employs principles from quantum ghost imaging and ghost diffraction. In this method, a transparent sample is illuminated by both photons of an entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yingwen Zhang , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Duncan England , Ebrahim Karimi , Benjamin Sussman

We developed a method to characterize arbitrary superpositions of light orbital angular momentum (OAM) with high fidelity by using astigmatic tomography and machine learning processing. In order to define each superposition unequivocally,…

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

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Ghost imaging in the time domain allows for reconstructing fast temporal objects using a slow photodetector. The technique involves correlating random or pre-programmed probing temporal intensity patterns with the integrated signal measured…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Han Wu , Bo Hu , Fei Peng , Zinan Wang , Goëry Genty , Houkun Liang

High visibility temporal ghost imaging with classical light is possible when superbunching pseudothermal light is employed. In the numerical simulation, the visibility of temporal ghost imaging with pseudothermal light equaling ($4.7\pm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Jianbin Liu , Jingjing Wang , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yanyan Liu , Yu Zhou , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

We report, for the first time, the observation of sub-wavelength coherent image of a pure phase object with thermal light,which represents an accurate Fourier transform. We demonstrate that ghost-imaging scheme (GI) retrieves amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Minghui Zhang , Qing Wei , Xia Shen , Yongfeng Liu , Honglin Liu , Yanfeng Bai , Shensheng Han