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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…

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As one of important analysis tools, microscopes with high spatial resolution are indispensable for scientific research and medical diagnosis, and much attention is always focused on the improvement of resolution. Over the past decade, a…

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Nonlinear optical phenomena such as parametric amplification and frequency conversion are typically driven by external optical fields. Free electrons can also act as electromagnetic sources, offering unmatched spatial precision. Combining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 Leila Prelat , Eduardo J. C. Dias , F. Javier García de Abajo

The coincident detection of particles is a powerful method in experimental physics, enabling the investigation of a variety of projectile-target interactions. The vast majority of coincidence experiments is performed with charged particles,…

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We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear crystals, by sharing a coherent pump and…

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We present the first experimental demonstration of ghost imaging realized with intense beams generated by a parametric downconversion interaction seeded with pseudo-thermal light. As expected, the real image of the object is reconstructed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Puddu , A. Andreoni , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Bondani , S. Castelletto

We show that a recently discussed apparatus for aberration-cancelled interferometry may be modified to perform correlated-photon imaging in the so-called "ghost" imaging configuration. For objects in the vicinity of a particular plane, the…

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We analytically show that it is possible to perform coherent imaging by using the classical correlation of two beams obtained by splitting incoherent thermal radiation. A formal analogy is demonstrated between two such classically…

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We report on a quantum interference experiment to probe the coherence between two photons coming from non degenerate photon pairs at telecom wavelength created in spatially separated sources. The two photons are mixed on a beam splitter and…

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We present a device that exploits spatial and spectral correlations in parametric downconversion at once. By using a ghost imaging arrangement, we have been able to reconstruct remotely the frequency profile of a composite system. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Andrea Chiuri , Federico Angelini , Simone Santoro , Marco Barbieri , Ilaria Gianani

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 give a protocol for ghost imaging in a way that is always counterfactual - while imaging an object, no light interacts with that object. This extends the idea of counterfactuality beyond communication, showing how this interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Jonte Hance , John Rarity

Low-light-level imaging techniques have application in many diverse fields, ranging from biological sciences to security. We demonstrate a single-photon imaging system based on a time-gated inten- sified CCD (ICCD) camera in which the image…

We report the first experimental demonstration of two-photon imaging with a pseudo-thermal source. Similarly to the case of entangled states, a two-photon Gaussian thin lens equation is observed, indicating EPR type correlation in position.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alejandra Valencia , Giuliano Scarcelli , Milena D'Angelo , Y. Shih

We establish a quantum theory of computational ghost imaging and propose quantum projection imaging where object information can be reconstructed by quantum statistical correlation between a certain photon number of bucket signal and DMD…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 De-Zhong Cao , Su-Heng Zhang , Ya-Nan Zhao , Cheng Ren , Jun Zhang , Baolai Liang , Baoqing Sun , Kaige Wang

One of the possible types of n-th order ghost imaging is experimentally performed using multi-photon (higher-order) intensity correlations of pseudothermal light. It is shown that although increasing the order of intensity correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 I. N. Agafonov , M. V. Chekhova , A. N. Penin

Free electron beams and their quantum coupling with photons is attracting a rising interest due to the basic questions it addresses and the cutting-edge technology these particles are involved in, such as microscopy, spectroscopy, and…

General Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Eitan Kazakevich , Hadar Aharon , Ofer Kfir

Advancing quantum information, communication and sensing relies on the generation and control of quantum correlations in complementary degrees of freedom. Here, we demonstrate the preparation of electron-photon pair states using the…

Electron spectroscopy implemented in electron microscopes provides high spatial resolution, down to the atomic scale, of the chemical, electronic, vibrational and optical properties of materials. In this review, we will describe how…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-11 Luiz H. G. Tizei , Yves Auad , Florian Castioni , Mathieu Kociak

The use of x-ray imaging in medicine and other research is well known. Generally, the image quality is proportional to the total flux, but high photon energy could severely damage the specimen, so how to decrease the radiation dose while…

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