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Since its discovery, the "ghost" diffraction phenomenon has emerged as a non-conventional technique for optical imaging with very promising advantages. However, extracting intensity and phase information of a structured and realistic object…

We present a lensless, Fourier-transform ghost imaging scheme by exploring the fourth-order correlation function of spatially incoherent thermal neutron waves. This technique is established on the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Kun Chen , Shensheng Han

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

A generic computational imaging setup is considered which assumes sequential illumination of a semi-transparent object by an arbitrary set of structured illumination patterns. For each incident illumination pattern, all transmitted light is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 T. E. Gureyev , D. M. Paganin , A. Kozlov , Ya. I. Nesterets , H. M. Quiney

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 imaging with undetected photons spatially transfers amplitude and phase information from one spectral region of physical interest to another spectral region that is easy to detect. The photon energy of the two spectral regions can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mirco Kutas , Felix Riexinger , Jens Klier , Daniel Molter , Georg von Freymann

The retrieval of the phase with single-photon states is a fundamental and technical challenging endeavor. Here we report the first experimental realization of hologram recordings with heralded single-photon illumination and continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Denis Abramović , Nazif Demoli , Mario Stipčević , Hrvoje Skenderović

Ghost imaging incorporating deep learning technology has recently attracted much attention in the optical imaging field. However, deterministic illumination and multiple exposure are still essential in most scenarios. Here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruiguo Zhu , Hong Yu , Zhijie Tan , Ronghua Lu , Shensheng Han , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang

Quantum imaging encompasses a broad range of methods that exploit the quantum properties of light to capture information about an object. One such approach involves using a two-photon quantum state, where only one photon interacts with the…

Under weak illumination, tracking and imaging moving object turns out to be hard. By spatially collecting the signal, single pixel imaging schemes promise the capability of image reconstruction from low photon flux. However, due to the…

It is thought that schemes for quantum imaging are fragile against realistic environments in which the background noise is often stronger than the nonclassical signal of the imaging photons. Unfortunately, it is unfeasible to produce…

There has been an intense debate on the quantum versus classical origin of ghost imaging with a thermal light source over the last two decades. A lot of distinguished work has contributed to this topic, both theoretically and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Lixiang Chen

The direct detection of gravitational waves from binary mergers has been hailed as the discovery of the century. In the light of recent evidence on the existence of gravitational waves, it is now possible to know about the properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-27 Athira B S , Susobhan Mandal , Subhashish Banerjee

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

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

Non-degenerate wavelength computational ghost imaging with thermal light source is studied theoretically and experimentally. The acquired computational ghost images are of high quality when the wavelength of computed light is different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Deyang Duan , Zhongxiao Man , Yunjie Xia

Counterintuitive nature of quantum physics leads to a number of paradoxes. One of them is a "quantum vampire" effect [1] consisting in the fact, that photon annihilation in a part of a large beam doesn't change the shape of the beam profile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 K. G. Katamadze , E. V. Kovlakov , G. V. Avosopiants , S. P. Kulik

The nature of multiple samples to extract correlation information limits the applications of ghost imaging of moving objects. A novel multi-to-one neural network is proposed and the concept of "batch frame" is introduced to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Da Chen , Shan-Guo Feng , Hua-Hua Wang , Jia-Ning Cao , Zhi-Wei Zhang , Zhi-Xin Yang , Ao Yan , Lu Gao , Ze Zhang

Photons are excellent information carriers but normally pass through each other without consequence. Engineered interactions between photons would enable applications from quantum information processing to simulation of condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Haruka Tanji-Suzuki , Wenlan Chen , Renate Landig , Jonathan Simon , Vladan Vuletic

Spatial light modulation is important for many scientific and industrial applications. The spatial light modulator and optical data projector both rely on precisely configurable optical elements to shape a light beam. Here we explore an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 David Ceddia , Andrew M. Kingston , Daniele Pelliccia , Alexander Rack , David M. Paganin