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Opt Lett. 2015 Dec 15;40(24):5770-3. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.005770.

Ultrabroadband ghost imaging exploiting optoelectronic amplified spontaneous emission and two-photon detection.

Optics letters

Sébastien Hartmann, Andreas Molitor, Wolfgang Elsäßer

PMID: 26670508 DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.005770

Abstract

Ghost imaging (GI) is one of the recent fascinating and probably counterintuitive topics of quantum optics. Here, we present an alternative classical GI scheme using spectrally ultrabroadband amplified spontaneous emission from an optoelectronic quantum dot based superluminescent diode source. This light source exhibits highly incoherent properties regarding both first- and second-order correlations with a 70 nm-wide optical spectrum as well as thermal-like photon statistics. Exploiting a two-photon-absorption detection method, we demonstrate for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, a GI experiment handling the corresponding femtosecond correlation timescales. By introducing compact broadband light sources to GI, this work contributes toward practical application of GI.

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