Use of an intensity threshold to improve the visibility of ghost images produced by incoherent light
Applied Optics, Vol. 46, Issue 25, pp. 6291-6296 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.46.006291
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Abstract
In thermal light ghost imaging, the transparent mask, located in the object arm of the optical setup, is numerically reconstructed by correlating the speckle patterns acquired by the video camera with the output of a bucket detector placed behind the mask. We show that the visibility of images can be significantly improved by discarding every speckle pattern whose bucket output falls below a certain threshold. We also demonstrate that the efficiency of the conventional method strongly decreases when the speckle statistics deviate from the negative exponential, whereas the threshold method is more robust against changes in the statistical distribution of the speckle intensity. We also provide reasonable statistical explanations for these results.
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OCIS Codes
(030.4280) Coherence and statistical optics : Noise in imaging systems
(100.0100) Image processing : Image processing
ToC Category:
Coherence and Statistical Optics
History
Original Manuscript: February 27, 2007
Revised Manuscript: June 19, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: July 2, 2007
Published: August 23, 2007
Citation
Lorenzo Basano and Pasquale Ottonello, "Use of an intensity threshold to improve the visibility of ghost images produced by incoherent light," Appl. Opt. 46, 6291-6296 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-46-25-6291
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