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Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro

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

A thermal ghost imaging scheme between two distant parties is proposed and experimentally demonstrated over long-distance optical fibers. In the scheme, the weak thermal light is split into two paths. Photons in one path are spatially…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Yao , Wei Zhang , Hao Li , Lixing You , Zhen Wang , Yidong Huang

Many significant results have been achieved in the fields of ghost imaging, in which the beam splitter is an indispensable optical component. This paper introduces a method to realize ghost imaging without beam splitter. And we study this…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Shibei He , Xia Shen , Hui Wang , Wenlin Gong , Shengsheng Han

We report the reconstruction of a transparency image in Ghost diffraction scheme using a statistical optics approach. This is implemented by using a static diffuser rather than a pseudo thermal light source with a rotating diffuser. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Manisha , Vipin Tiwari , Nandan S Bisht , Bhargab Das , Rakesh Kumar Singh

Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the correlation between two light beams to reconstruct the image of an object. Conventional GI algorithms require large memory space to store the measured data and perform complicated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Yi-Pu Liu , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

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

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…

Holography is a cornerstone characterisation and imaging technique that can be applied to the full electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio waves or even particles such as neutrons. The key property in all these holographic approaches…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 Hugo Defienne , Bienvenu Ndagano , Ashley Lyons , Daniele Faccio

We provide a unified treatment of classical and quantum Gaussian-state sources that unambiguously identifies which features of ghost imaging are strictly quantum mechanical. We show that ghost-image formation is fundamentally classical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

A special algorithm for the Fourier-transform Ghost Imaging (GI) scheme is discussed based on the Compressive Sampling (CS) theory. Though developed mostly in real space, CS algorithm could also be used for the Fourier spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-23 Hui Wang , Shensheng Han

Ghost imaging in the time domain allows for reconstructing fast temporal objects using a slow photodetector. The technique involves correlating random or pre-programmed probing temporal intensity patterns with the integrated signal measured…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Han Wu , Bo Hu , Fei Peng , Zinan Wang , Goëry Genty , Houkun Liang

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

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

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

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

The Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect, discovered in the 1950s and further developed in the 1960s, was originally used to estimate stellar angular diameters through intensity correlations measured by spatially separated detectors. Further…

The ghost imaging (GI) technique, which has attracted attention as a highly sensitive and noise-resistant technique, employs a spatially modulated illuminating light and a single-pixel detector. Generally, the information acquired by GI is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-23 Shuhei Yoshida

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

Imaging for an occluded object is usually a difficult problem, in this letter, we introduce an imaging scheme based on computational ghost imaging, which can obtain the image of a target object behind an obstacle. According to our…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 Chao Gao , Xiaoqian Wang , Lidan Gou , Yuling Feng , Hongji Cai , Zhifeng Wang , Zhihai Yao