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For remote sensing, high-resolution imaging techniques are helpful to catch more characteristic information of the target. We extend pseudo-thermal light ghost imaging to the area of remote imaging and propose a ghost imaging lidar system.…

Classical ghost imaging has received considerable attention in recent years because of its remarkable ability to image a scene without direct observation by a light-detecting imaging device. In this article, we show that this imaging…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-13 Pradeep Sen

Radar sensors are an important part of driver assistance systems and intelligent vehicles due to their robustness against all kinds of adverse conditions, e.g., fog, snow, rain, or even direct sunlight. This robustness is achieved by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Florian Kraus , Nicolas Scheiner , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer

Ghost imaging was first demonstrated with entangled photon pairs and well-known for its peculiar properties. The signal beam that illuminates the object possesses no spatial resolution, whereas the reference beam, which never interacts with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Meixue Chen , Yiqi Song , Yu Gu , Huafan Zhang , Huaibin Zheng , Yuchen He , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu , Jianbin Liu

Homodyne detection is a phase-sensitive measurement technique, essential for the characterization of continuous-variable (CV)-encoded quantum states of light. It is a key component to the implementation of CV quantum-information protocols…

We report a large area photo-diode based homodyne detector for free-space quantum coherent communication. The detector's performance is studied in terms of detection bandwidth and electronic noise for shot-noise limited quantum signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Rupesh Kumar , Igor Konieczniak , Gerald Bonner , Tim Spiller

Traditional ghost imaging acquires images via the correlation of the intensity fluctuations of reference patterns and bucket values, and can even generate positive-negative images by conditionally averaging partial patterns. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Ya-Xin Li , Wen-Kai Yu , Shuo-Fei Wang

I propose an approach to adaptive homodyne detection of digitally modulated quantum optical pulses in which the phase of the local oscillator is chosen to maximize the average information gain, i.e., the mutual information, at each step of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Bargatin

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

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…

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

Ghost imaging (GI) is a potential imaging technique that reconstructs the target scene from its correlated measurements with a sequential of patterns. Restricted by the multi-shot principle, GI usually requires long acquisition time and is…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-12 Chao Deng , Yuwang Wang , Jinli Suo , Zhili Zhang , Qionghai Dai

We describe a new scheme for the measurement of mean photon flux at an arbitrary optical sideband frequency using homodyne detection. Experimental implementation of the technique requires an AOM in addition to the homodyne detector, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. G. Webb , T. C. Ralph , E. H. Huntington

We present an entanglement-based quantitative phase gradient microscopy technique that employs principles from quantum ghost imaging and ghost diffraction. In this method, a transparent sample is illuminated by both photons of an entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yingwen Zhang , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Duncan England , Ebrahim Karimi , Benjamin Sussman

Converting the medium infrared field to the visible band is an effective image detection method. We propose a comprehensive theory of image up-conversion under continuous optical pumping, and discuss the relationship between the…

Extracting as much information as possible about an object when probing with a limited number of photons is an important goal with applications from biology and security to metrology. Imaging with a few photons is a challenging task as the…

We propose an innovative strategy to discriminate between two coherent states affected by either uniform or gaussian phase noise. The strategy is based on a homodyne-like detection scheme with photon-number-resolving detectors in the regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Matteo Bina , Alessia Allevi , Maria Bondani , Stefano Olivares

We investigate the effect of turbulence on quantum ghost imaging. We use entangled photons and demonstrate that for a novel experimental configuration the effect of turbulence can be greatly diminished. By decoupling the entangled photon…

Computational ghost imaging (CGI) is a single-pixel imaging technique that exploits the correlation between known random patterns and the measured intensity of light transmitted (or reflected) by an object. Although CGI can obtain two- or…

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a promising waveform candidate for future joint sensing and communication systems. It is well known that the OFDM waveform is vulnerable to in-phase and quadrature-phase (IQ) imbalance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Oliver Lang , Christian Hofbauer , Moritz Tockner , Reinhard Feger , Thomas Wagner , Mario Huemer