By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a pure phase object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The results once again underline that entanglement is not a necessary feature of ghost imaging. The light we use is spatially highly incoherent with respect to the object (≈2 μm speckle size) and is produced by a pseudo-thermal source relying on the principle of near-field scattering. We show that in these conditions no information on the phase object can be retrieved by only measuring the light that passed through it, neither in a direct measurement nor in a Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) scheme. In general, we show a remarkable complementarity between ghost imaging and the HBT scheme when dealing with a phase object.

By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a pure phase object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The results once again underline that entanglement is not a necessary feature of ghost imaging. The light we use is spatially highly incoherent with respect to the object (approximate to 2 mu m speckle size) and is produced by a pseudo-thermal source relying on the principle of near-field scattering. We show that in these conditions no information on the phase object can be retrieved by only measuring the light that passed through it, neither in a direct measurement nor in a Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) scheme. In general, we show a remarkable complementarity between ghost imaging and the HBT scheme when dealing with a phase object.

Coherent imaging of a pure phase object with classical incoherent light

FERRI, FABIO;BRAMBILLA, ENRICO;LUGIATO, LUIGI
2006-01-01

Abstract

By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a pure phase object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The results once again underline that entanglement is not a necessary feature of ghost imaging. The light we use is spatially highly incoherent with respect to the object (approximate to 2 mu m speckle size) and is produced by a pseudo-thermal source relying on the principle of near-field scattering. We show that in these conditions no information on the phase object can be retrieved by only measuring the light that passed through it, neither in a direct measurement nor in a Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) scheme. In general, we show a remarkable complementarity between ghost imaging and the HBT scheme when dealing with a phase object.
2006
http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.053802
Bache, M.; Magatti, D.; Ferri, Fabio; Gatti, A.; Brambilla, Enrico; Lugiato, Luigi
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