Chaotic imaging in frequency downconversion
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Frequency Mixing Magnetic Detection Scanner for Imaging Magnetic Particles in Planar Samples
Published on: June 9, 2016
Emiliano Puddu1, Alessia Allevi, Alessandra Andreoni
1Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, via Valleggio, 11, 22100 Como, Italy.
Abstract:
We analyze and recover, by means of spatial intensity correlations, the image obtained by a seeded frequency-downconversion process in which the seed field is chaotic and an intensity modulation is encoded in the pump field. Although the field generated is as chaotic as the seed field and does not carry any information about the modulation of the pump, one can extract an image of the pump by measuring the spatial intensity correlations between the generated field and one Fourier component of the seed.
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