Ghost imaging with intense fields from chaotically seeded parametric downconversion
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Digital Inline Holographic Microscopy (DIHM) of Weakly-scattering Subjects
Published on: February 8, 2014
Emiliano Puddu1, Alessandra Andreoni, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni
1Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (C.N.R-I.N.F.M.), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy. emiliano.puddu@uninsubria.it
Abstract:
We present the first experimental demonstration, to the best of our knowledge, of ghost imaging realized with intense beams generated by a parametric downconversion interaction seeded with pseudothermal light. As expected, the real image of the object is reconstructed satisfying the thin-lens equation. We show that the experimental visibility of the reconstructed image is in accordance with the theoretically expected one.
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