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Recently, ghost imaging has been attracting attentions because its mechanism would lead to many applications inaccessible to conventional imaging methods. However, it is challenging for high contrast and high resolution imaging, due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Mengjia Xi , Hui Chen , Yuan Yuan , Gao Wang , Yuchen He , Yan Liang , Jianbin Liu , Huaibin Zheng , Zhuo Xu

For ghost imaging, pursuing high resolution images and short acquisition times required for reconstructing images are always two main goals. We report an image reconstruction algorithm called compressive sampling (CS) reconstruction to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Conventional computational ghost imaging (CGI) uses light carrying a sequence of patterns with uniform-resolution to illuminate the object, then performs correlation calculation based on the light intensity value reflected by the target and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Dong Zhou , Jie Cao , Huan Cui , Li-Xing Lin , Haoyu Zhang , Yingqiang Zhang , Qun Hao

The usually reported pixel resolution of single pixel imaging (SPI) varies between $32 \times 32$ and $256 \times 256$ pixels falling far below imaging standards with classical methods. Low resolution results from the trade-off between the…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Rafał Stojek , Anna Pastuszczak , Piotr Wróbel , Rafał Kotyński

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

X-ray Fluorescence Ghost Imaging (XRF-GI) was recently demonstrated for x-ray lab sources. It has the potential to reduce acquisition time and deposited dose by choosing their trade-off with spatial resolution, while alleviating the…

We present a theoretical study of ghost imaging based on correlated beams arising from parametric down-conversion, and which uses balanced homodyne detection to measure both the signal and idler fields. We analytically show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bache , E. Brambilla , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato

We demonstrate a single-arm optical platform for phase-retrieval-free, quantitative dynamic phase mapping of continuous transparent media via field-correlation ghost imaging. By modeling the medium as a dynamic pure-phase object, we…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-24 Chaoran Wang , Jinquan Qi , Shuang Liu , Xingzhao Jiang , Shensheng Han

Multi-spectral quantitative phase imaging (MS-QPI) is a cutting-edge label-free technique to determine the morphological changes, refractive index variations and spectroscopic information of the specimens. The bottleneck to implement this…

We have developed a hybrid single photon detection scheme for telecom wavelengths based on nonlinear sum-frequency generation and silicon single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The SPAD devices employed have been designed to have very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. T. Thew , S. Tanzilli , L. Krainer , S. C. Zeller , A. Rochas , I. Rech , S. Cova , H. Zbinden , N. Gisin

We show that, when the integration time of the single photon detectors is longer than the correlation time of the biphoton, the attainable spatial resolution in ghost imaging with entangled signal idler pairs generated in type II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 J. Reintjes , Mark Bashkansky

We present a protocol for the amplification and distribution of a one-time-pad cryptographic key over a point-to-multipoint optical network based on computational ghost imaging (GI) and compressed sensing (CS). It is shown experimentally…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-14 Wen-Kai Yu , Shen Li , Xu-Ri Yao , Xue-Feng Liu , Ling-An Wu , Guang-Jie Zhai

We propose a technique to obtain sub-wavelength resolution in quantum imaging with potentially 100% contrast using incoherent light. Our method requires neither path-entangled number states nor multi-photon absorption. The scheme makes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Thiel , T. Bastin , J. Martin , E. Solano , J. von Zanthier , G. S. Agarwal

In computational ghost imaging the object is illuminated with a sequence of known patterns, and the scattered light is collected using a detector that has no spatial resolution. Using those patterns and the total intensity measurement from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-16 Harry Penketh , William L Barnes , Jacopo Bertolotti

Efforts on enhancing the ghost imaging speed and quality are intensified when the debate around the nature of ghost imaging (quantum vs. classical) is suspended for a while. Accordingly, most of the studies these years in the field fall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Fei Yan , Kehan Chen , Abdullah M. Iliyasu , Jianping Zhao

Traditional ghost imaging experiments exploit position correlations between correlated states of light. These correlations occur directly in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), and in such a scenario, the two-photon state used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nicholas Bornman , Shashi Prabhakar , Adam Vallés , Jonathan Leach , Andrew Forbes

Coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI) is a promising technique to capture the three-dimensional hyperspectral image (HSI) using a single coded two-dimensional (2D) measurement, in which algorithms are used to perform the inverse…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Wei He , Naoto Yokoya , Xin Yuan

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum-position entanglement and photon-number correlations to provide the…

Ghost imaging (GI) is a novel imaging technique based on the second-order correlation of light fields. Due to limited number of samplings in practice, traditional GI methods often reconstruct objects with unsatisfactory quality. To improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Chenyu Hu , Zhisheng Tong , Zhentao Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang , Shensheng Han

Pixelation occurs in many imaging systems and limits the spatial resolution of the acquired images. This effect is notably present in quantum imaging experiments with correlated photons in which the number of pixels used to detect…