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Phys. Rev. A 77, 041801(R) (2008) [4 pages]

Ghost-imaging experiment by measuring reflected photons

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Ron Meyers1, Keith S. Deacon1, and Yanhua Shih2
1U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA
2Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA

Received 8 March 2007; revised 12 June 2007; published 8 April 2008

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A CCD array is placed facing a chaotic light source and gated by a photon counting detector that simply counts all randomly scattered and reflected photons from an object. A “ghost” image of the object is then observed in the gated CCD. Differing from all published ghost-imaging experiments, this setup captures ghosts from scattered and reflected light of an object, instead of the transmitted ones. This new feature is not only useful for practical applications, but is also important fundamentally. It further explores the nonclassical interference nature of thermal light ghost imaging.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.041801
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.041801
PACS:
42.50.Xa, 03.65.−w