Color ghost imaging via sparsity constraint and non-local self-similarity

We propose a color ghost imaging approach where the object is illuminated by three-color non-orthogonal random patterns. The object’s reflection/transmission information is received by only one single-pixel detector, and both the sparsity constraint and non-local self-similarity of the object are utilized in the image reconstruction process. Numerical simulation results demonstrate that the imaging quality can be obviously enhanced by ghost imaging via sparsity constraint and nonlocal self-similarity(GISCNL), compared with the reconstruction methods where only the object’s sparsity is used. Factors affecting the quality of GISCNL, such as the measurement number and the detection signal-to-noise ratio, are also studied.     

Ghost imaging with partially coherent light radiation through turbulent atmosphere

Based on the classical optical coherent theory and the extended Huygens-Fresnel integral, ghost imaging with partially coherent light radiation through turbulent atmosphere has been studied. The analytical ghost-imaging formulas have been derived. Based on these formulas and the numerical calculation results, we find that the image quality is influenced by the turbulence strength, the propagation distance, and the coherent parameters of the partially coherent light.     

Lensless ghost imaging through the strongly scattering medium

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.     

Effects of light intensity on reflective ghost imaging

In this letter, we analyze the effects of light intensity find that the brightness of reflective ghost image can on reflective ghost imaging with thermal source. We be changed by modulating the light intensity of the source and the splitting ratio of the beam splitter. The signal-to-noise ratio will be improved by increa.sing the light intensity of the source. More important, we can obtain the reflective ghost image with high image quality by adopting a low light intensity signal beam and a high light intensity reference beam, which is better than the classical optical imaging, because it can reduce the effects of light on the object.     

Robust Ghost Imaging Based on Degenerate Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

In traditional ghost imaging, the entangled photon pairs produced from the spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC) process are used. There is an intrinsic disadvantage that the utilization efficiency of the photon pairs is very low. Inasmuch as all the correlated photon pairs produced by the degenerate SPDC process can be used to record the image of an object, the ghost imaging scheme we present here has a higher utilization efficiency of the photon pairs. We also investigate the robustness of our experimental scheme. The experimental results show that, no matter whether the photon-pair source is two light cones or two beam-like spots, the clear image of the object can be obtained. The slight rotation of the nonlinear crystal has no influence on the imaging quality.Our experimental results also demonstrate that when the part of the photon-pair source in the signal path or the idler path is blocked by unwanted things, the clear ghost image of the object can still be recorded.     

实验研究探测器大小与散焦长度对无透镜鬼衍射的影响

无透镜鬼衍射是一种特殊的非局域关联成像技术,通过对包含物体信息的测试光路和不含物体信息的参考光路的光场强度涨落关联进行测量,在参考光路上可得到物体的衍射图样。利用赝热光源实验研究了探测器尺寸大小和光路散焦长度对无透镜鬼衍射质量的影响。实验以四缝物体为例,定量研究了探测器大小和散焦是如何改变无透镜鬼衍射的成像结果,并和理论模拟进行了比较,获得了比较一致的结果。利用图像相关度定量分析了实验结果与理想无透镜鬼衍射图像的差别,发现这两者都会使无透镜鬼衍射的质量变差。     

Computational lensless ghost imaging in a slant path non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere

Based on the computational ghost-imaging arrangement with “virtual detector” and the extended Huygens–Fresnel integral, lensless ghost imaging with fully spatially incoherent light radiation through a slant turbulent channel has been studied. The analytical ghost-imaging formulas have been derived. Our formulas shown that the image quality is influenced by the turbulence strength, the propagation distance, the zenith angle of communication channel and the fractal constant of the non-Kolmogorov power spectrum of atmospheric turbulence. In the case of the short-exposure imaging and the bucket detector detection for test field, the influence of the atmospheric turbulence on the quality of the ghost imaging mainly come from the path which is ahead of object.     

Study of 3D display information based on the mutual intension distribution of imaging light field

In accordance with the theory of partially coherent light, the correlation degree of light disturbance for all pairs of object points has been expounded and measured with their mutual intensity. Furthermore, the expression of mutual intensity distribution on the image plane by a set of prolate spheroidal wave functions has been given. Then, the number of freedom degree of light field on the image plane has been worked out illuminated by three light conditions, coherent, incoherent and partially coherent light. This approach provides a novel expression of 3D display information.     

湍流大气中图像传输的信息量

分别从系统像的信息量和信息自由度的角度分析了大气湍流对相干和不相干照明光学系统成像质量和分辨率的影响。理论上，处于一定大气湍流条件下的相干照明系统存在着超出经典衍射极限的超分辨率。     

Illumination with a moving light source

Image formation is discussed under the condition that an object is illuminated with a moving light source and a time-averaged image is observed. An optical system with such illumination works as if the object were illuminated with spatially, partially coherent light from a certain fixed source.     

Lensless two-color ghost imaging from the perspective of coherent-mode representation

The coherent-mode representation theory is firstly used to analyze lensless two-color ghost imaging. A quite complicated expression about the point-spread function(PSF) needs to be given to analyze which wavelength has a stronger affect on imaging quality when the usual integral representation theory is used to ghost imaging. Unlike this theory, the coherent-mode representation theory shows that imaging quality depends crucially on the distribution of the decomposition coefficients of the object imaged in a two-color ghost imaging. The analytical expression of the decomposition coefficients of the object is unconcerned with the wavelength of the light used in the reference arm, but has relevance with the wavelength in the object arm. In other words, imaging quality of two-color ghost imaging depends primarily on the wavelength of the light illuminating the object. Our simulation results also demonstrate this conclusion.     

基于反射型物体的高阶非相干热光源关联成像性能研究

现有基于热光源的关联成像主要是针对透射型物体,这样可简化关联成像分析过程。然而对于成像的实际应用,比如遥感技术,反射型物体将具有更大的实用价值。基于非相干均亮的热光源,对反射型物体的高阶关联成像进行了研究,推导出其高阶反射关联成像的关联函数、可见度及信噪比的解析式;对比二阶反射关联成像,讨论阶数对关联成像性能的影响。研究结果表明,对于反射型物体的关联成像,随着阶数的增加,成像的可见度得到提高,但信噪比下降,同时能够通过增加测量次数增加成像的信噪比。     

用改进的Fienup迭代算法进行数字全息重建

数字全息成像中往往包括再现像、共轭像和零级项,再现像的分离是常见而又难以彻底解决的问题。提出一种新的全息图重建算法,即利用相干衍射成像（CDI）中的迭代方法处理数字全息图,实现仅有一个实像的再现结果,从而彻底解决该问题。该方法包括两个步骤：首先通过CCD分别测量样品单独存在、样品和参考光同时存在以及参考光的远场衍射分布;然后通过计算机进行迭代运算。由于干涉光的存在,该算法比传统的CDI算法有更快的收敛速度和重建质量。同时进行了数值模拟验证并对生物切片进行了物像重建。     

基于光场一阶关联的时域成像

与通常利用二阶强度关联测量实现时域鬼成像不同,本文利用时域热光源借助干涉仪通过一阶关联实现时域成像.基于空域光束的近轴衍射和时域窄带脉冲在色散介质中色散之间的空间-时间二象性,在时域脉冲响应函数的基础上得到了表征一阶关联时域成像的强度表达式,分析研究了光源脉冲宽度和相干时间对成像可见度和分辨率的影响.结果一方面表明基于热光场一阶关联的时域成像在不需要额外色散补偿或消除条件下可以实现时域物体信号的再现,另一方面表明当光源脉冲宽度一定时,成像可见度随光源脉冲相干时间的增加而增加,但是成像分辨率逐渐降低,其中当光源脉冲宽度约为100 ps,相干时间约为0.5 ps时,间隔为20 ps,宽度为8 ps的时域矩形波型物体的成像质量(兼顾可见度和分辨率)较好.该结果对于基于热光一阶关联的时域成像在时序信号测量中的应用具有重要意义.     

内掩式透射地基日冕仪中杂光鬼像的消除

为了消除杂散光对日冕仪成像质量的影响,分析了工作波段为530～555 nm的内掩式透射地基日冕仪（其视场为±1.1～3R⊙,分辨率为13.5μm,口径为120 mm,系统F数为8.2）物镜的多次反射形成的鬼像。基于鬼像形成原理,完成建模模拟,提出了结构性遮拦措施,并通过实验论证了遮拦结构对鬼像有良好的遮拦效果,同时验证了鬼像的光强和物镜边缘衍射光基本一致。实验还显示：鬼像的尺寸和模拟基本一致,直径均约为0.9 mm。消除鬼像后,内掩式透射日冕仪消杂光能力和成像质量进一步提高,实现了对日冕的有效观测。     

Study on the reduction of speckle noise in the reconstructed image of digital hologram

As one of the most important 3-D display technique, reduction of speckle noise in the reconstructed image of digital holography should be grounded on the digital hologram itself. Based on the whole process of the recording and reconstruction of digital holography, the optical distributions of recorded object and reconstructed image of digital holography have been studied. It has been proposed that the root formation cause of speckle noise in its reconstructed image is the speckle noise formed on the recorded object surface when illuminated by coherent light because of its optical roughness. A novel approach has been presented to reduce speckle noise in digital holography by changing the interference structure of hologram itself. First, by reducing the speckle noise in the reconstructed image, the distribution of ideal reconstruction light with reduced speckle noise is acquired. Then in turn, taking the ideal reconstruction light with reduced speckle noise as ideal object light, a new hologram can be rebuilt, which can reconstruct the ideal object light. The experimental results are given to confirm the proposed method. Therefore, it offers a brand-new thought and practical way to reduce the speckle noise in the reconstructed image of digital holography.     

Ghost imaging with broad distance

We present a scheme that is able to achieve the ghost imaging with broad distance. The physical nature of our scheme is that the different wavelength beams are separated in free space by an optical media according to the slow light or dispersion principle. Meanwhile, the equality of the optical distance of the two light arms is not violated. The photon correlation is achieved by the rotating ground glass plate(RGGP) and spatial light modulator(SLM), respectively. Our work shows that a monochromic ghost image can be obtained in the case of RGGP. More importantly, the position(or distance) of the object can be ascertained by the color of the image. Thus, the imaging and ranging processes are combined as one process for the first time to the best of our knowledge. In the case of SLM, we can obtain a colored image regardless of where the object is.     

High-order ghost imaging with N-colour thermal light

High-order ghost imaging with thermal light consisting of N different frequencies is investigated. The high-order intensity correlation and intrinsic correlation functions are derived for such N-colour light. It is found that they are similar in form to those for the monochromatic case, thus most of the conclusions we obtained previously for monochromatic Nth-order ghost imaging are still applicable. However, we find that the visibility of the N-colour ghost image depends strongly on the wavelength used to illuminate the object, and increases as this wavelength increases when the test arm is fixed. On the contrary, changes of wavelength in the reference arms do not lead to any change of the visibility.     

Ghost imaging with white light speckle patterns

In this paper we describe a method to study the formation of a ghost image by using a simplified setup. A spatial light modulator (SLM) working in amplitude regime is used both to display the object and the intensity distribution that provides the high-spatially correlated beams which are the base of this phenomenon. We compare the recovered ghost image with that obtained by using pseudothermal light. Moreover we show that good quality images are also retrieved when a turbulent media is present.     

一种提取物体相位变化率信息的理论和方法

利用部分相干光成像理论,推出傅科(Foucault)刀口相位检测时非相干光入射情况下的像面光强分布.分析表明,在一定条件下,可得到输入物函数相位变化率分布的信息.同时提出一种获取物相位变化率信息的装置,并分析了该装置的成像情况.