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We report the nonlocal imaging of an object by conditional averaging of the random exposure frames of a reference detector, which only sees the freely propagating field from a thermal light source. A bucket detector, synchronized with the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-25 Kai-Hong Luo , Boqiang Huang , Wei-Mou Zheng , Ling-An Wu

Imaging based on successive repeated snapshot measurement is modeled as a source coding process in information theory. The necessary number of measurement to maintain a certain level of error rate is depicted as the rate-distortion function…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-12 Junhui Li , Bin Luo , Dongyue Yang , Guohua wu , Longfei Yin , Hong Guo

Ghost imaging is a quantum optics technique that uses correlations between two beams to reconstruct an image in one beam from photons that do not interact with the object being imaged. While pairwise (second order) correlations are usually…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 Sean S. Hodgman , Wei Bu , Sacha B. Mann , Roman I. Khakimov , Andrew G. Truscott

Classical ghost imaging is a correlation-imaging technique in which the image of the object is found through intensity correlations of light. We analyze three different quality parameters, namely the visibility, the signal-to-noise ratio…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-29 Henri Kellock , Tero Setälä , Tomohiro Shirai , Ari T. Friberg

Ghost imaging (GI) achieves 2D image reconstruction through high-order correlation of 1D bucket signals and 2D light field information, particularly demonstrating enhanced detection sensitivity and high-quality image reconstruction via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Yifan Chen , Hongjun An , Zhe Sun , Tong Tian , Mingliang Chen , Christian Spielmann , Xuelong Li

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

Arbitrary Nth-order ($N\geq2$) lensless ghost imaging with thermal light has been performed for the first time by only recording the intensities in two optical paths. It is shown that the image visibility can be dramatically enhanced as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xi-Hao Chen , Ivan N. Agafonov , Kai-Hong Luo , Qian Liu , Rui Xian , Maria V. Chekhova , Ling-An Wu

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.…

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…

Computational ghost imaging is a robust and compact system that has drawn wide attentions over the last two decades. Multispectral imaging possesses spatial and spectral resolving abilities, is very useful for surveying scenes and…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jian Huang , Dongfeng Shi

Temporal ghost imaging is based on the temporal correlations of two optical beams and aims at forming a temporal image of a temporal object with a resolution, fundamentally limited by the photodetector resolution time and reaching 55 ps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Dmitri B. Horoshko

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

There is a consensus that turbulence-free images cannot be obtained by conventional computational ghost imaging (CGI) because the CGI is only a classic simulation, which does not satisfy the conditions of turbulence-free imaging. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Hao Zhang , Deyang Duan

The theory of ghost imaging is developed in a Gaussian-state framework that both encompasses prior work - on thermal-state and biphoton-state imagers - and provides a complete understanding of the boundary between classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Correlation Plenoptic Imaging (CPI) is a novel imaging technique, that exploits the correlations between the intensity fluctuations of light to perform the typical tasks of plenoptic imaging (namely, refocusing out-of-focus parts of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Giovanni Scala , Milena D'Angelo , Augusto Garuccio , Saverio Pascazio , Francesco V. Pepe

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

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…

The currently used ghost image schemes traditionally involve two-mode entangled light states or incoherent radiation. Here, application of four-mode entangled light states is considered. It is shown that multiplexed ghost images (MGI)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Dmitriy Balakin , Alexander Belinsky , Anatoly S. Chirkin

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

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