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We consider a modification of the classical ghost imaging scheme where an image of the research object is formed and acquired in the object arm. It is used alongside the ghost image to produce an estimate of the transmittance distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-10 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky

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

We report an experimental realization of a modified counterfactual communication protocol that eliminates the dominant environmental trace left by photons passing through the transmission channel. Compared to Wheeler's criterion for…

Quantum imaging, one of the pillars of quantum technologies, is well-suited to study sensitive samples which require low-light conditions, like biological tissues. In this context, interaction-free measurements (IFM) allow us infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Alexandra Maria Palici , Tudor-Alexandru Isdraila , Stefan Ataman , Radu Ionicioiu

Ghost imaging (GI) forms images from intensity-correlation data collected by a single-pixel detector, decoupling illumination and sensing. Since its quantum-photon origins, the technique has evolved through classical pseudothermal,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-17 Tong Tian , Sukyoon Oh , Christian Spielmann

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

The production of pairs of entangled photons simply by focusing a laser beam onto a crystal with a non-linear optical response was used to test quantum mechanics and to open new approaches in imaging. The development of the latter was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

Ghost imaging is a fascinating framework which constructs the image of an object by correlating measurements between received beams and reference beams, none of which carries the structure information of the object independently. Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Honghao Huang , Chengyang Hu , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

We implement a general imaging method by measuring the complex degree of coherence using linear optics and photon number resolving detectors. In the absence of collective or entanglement assisted measurements, our method is optimal over a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 L. A. Howard , G. G. Gillett , M. E. Pearce , R. A. Abrahao , T. J. Weinhold , P. Kok , A. G. White

We describe a method that predicts, from a single RGB image, a depth map that describes the scene when a masked object is removed - we call this "counterfactual depth" that models hidden scene geometry together with the observations. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Theerasit Issaranon , Chuhang Zou , David Forsyth

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

Many significant results have been achieved in the fields of ghost imaging, in which the beam splitter is an indispensable optical component. This paper introduces a method to realize ghost imaging without beam splitter. And we study this…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shibei He , Xia Shen , Hui Wang , Wenlin Gong , Shengsheng Han

Possibility to communicate between spatially separated regions, without even a single photon passing between the two parties, is an amazing quantum phenomenon. The possibility of transmitting one value of a bit in such a way, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yakir Aharonov , Lev Vaidman

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

Ghost imaging can capture 2D images with a point detector instead of an array sensor. It therefore offers a solution to the challenge of building area format sensors in wavebands where such sensors are difficult and expensive to produce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , Fei Dong , David McGloin

Frequency correlations are a versatile and powerful tool which can be exploited to perform spectral analysis of objects whose direct measurement might be unfeasible. This is achieved through a so-called ghost spectrometer, that can be…

Quantum correlations become formidable tools for beating classical capacities of measurement. Preserving these advantages in practical systems, where experimental imperfections are unavoidable, is a challenge of the utmost importance. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Elena Losero , Ivano Ruo Berchera , Alice Meda , Alessio Avella , Olga Sambataro , Marco Genovese

We develop a concept of metasurface-assisted ghost imaging for non-local discrimination between a set of polarization objects. The specially designed metasurfaces are incorporated in the imaging system to perform parallel state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-10 Andres Vega , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

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 long time consumption is a bottleneck for the applicability of the ghost imaging (GI). By introducing a criterion for the convergence of GI, we investigate a factor that impacts on the convergence speed of it. Based on computer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Minghui Zhang