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  • Optics and Photonics
  • Quantum Imaging

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  • Optical coherence tomography (OCT) traditionally requires reflective samples.
  • Ghost imaging (GI) offers unique capabilities for imaging through scattering media.
  • Thermal light sources are generally considered incoherent, posing challenges for high-resolution imaging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally demonstrate optical coherence tomography (OCT) for transmissive objects.
  • To utilize second-order correlation ghost imaging (GI) with thermal light for this purpose.
  • To introduce and validate a new metric for longitudinal resolution in GI systems with unequal optical paths.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a second-order correlation ghost imaging setup.
  • Utilizing thermal light as the illumination source.
  • Development and application of the 'imaging longitudinal coherence length' for resolution evaluation.

Main Results:

  • Successful experimental demonstration of OCT for transmissive objects using thermal light GI.
  • Introduction of the imaging longitudinal coherence length, a more accurate measure for GI systems with unequal optical paths.
  • Validation that the new metric surpasses conventional point-to-point longitudinal coherence length in judging image quality.

Conclusions:

  • The study provides a novel scheme for performing OCT on non-highly reflective, transmissive objects.
  • It enhances the understanding of longitudinal coherence properties of thermal light in GI.
  • The developed metric offers a more precise way to assess the longitudinal resolution of GI systems.