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Chin. Phys. B, 2016, Vol. 25(2): 024202    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/2/024202
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Lensless ghost imaging through the strongly scattering medium

Zhe Yang(杨哲)1, Lianjie Zhao(赵连洁)2, Xueliang Zhao(赵学亮)1, Wei Qin(秦伟)3, Junlin Li(李俊林)1
1. State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
2. Quantum Engineering Research Center, Beijing Institute of Aerospace Control Devices, Beijing 100854, China;
3. School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Abstract  

Lensless ghost imaging has attracted much interest in recent years due to its profound physics and potential applications. In this paper we report studies of the robust properties of the lensless ghost imaging system with a pseudo-thermal light source in a strongly scattering medium. The effects of the positions of the strong medium on the ghost imaging are investigated. In the lensless ghost imaging system, a pseudo-thermal light is split into two correlated beams by a beam splitter. One beam goes to a charge-coupled detector camera, labeled as CCD2. The other beam goes to an object and then is collected in another charge-coupled detector camera, labeled as CCD1, which serves as a bucket detector. When the strong medium, a pane of ground glass disk, is placed between the object and CCD1, the bucket detector, the quality of ghost imaging is barely affected and a good image could still be obtained. The quality of the ghost imaging can also be maintained, even when the ground glass is rotating, which is the strongest scattering medium so far. However, when the strongly scattering medium is present in the optical path from the light source to CCD2 or the object, the lensless ghost imaging system hardly retrieves the image of the object. A theoretical analysis in terms of the second-order correlation function is also provided.

Keywords:  lensless ghost imaging      second-order correlation      strongly scattering medium      robust property  
Received:  17 December 2015      Revised:  23 December 2015      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.30.Va (Image forming and processing)  
  42.25.Fx (Diffraction and scattering)  
  42.30.Lr (Modulation and optical transfer functions)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11175094 and 91221205), the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2015CB921002), and partially supported by the Basic Research Fund of Beijing Institute of Technology (Grant No. 20141842005).

Corresponding Authors:  Junlin Li     E-mail:  center@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
About author:  10.1088/1674-1056/25/2/

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Zhe Yang(杨哲), Lianjie Zhao(赵连洁), Xueliang Zhao(赵学亮), Wei Qin(秦伟), Junlin Li(李俊林) Lensless ghost imaging through the strongly scattering medium 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 024202

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