Reflective ghost imaging through turbulence
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Hardy, Nicholas David
Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
Date Issued
December 2011
Journal
Physical Review A
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Citation
Hardy, Nicholas, and Jeffrey Shapiro. “Reflective Ghost Imaging Through Turbulence.” Physical Review A 84.6 (2011): n. pag. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. © 2011 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Recent work has indicated that ghost imaging may have applications in standoff sensing. However, most theoretical work has addressed transmission-based ghost imaging. To be a viable remote-sensing system, the ghost imager needs to image rough-surfaced targets in reflection through long, turbulent optical paths. We develop, within a Gaussian-state framework, expressions for the spatial resolution, image contrast, and signal-to-noise ratio of such a system. We consider rough-surfaced targets that create fully developed speckle in their returns and Kolmogorov-spectrum turbulence that is uniformly distributed along all propagation paths. We address both classical and nonclassical optical sources, as well as a computational ghost imager.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.063824