Ghost Imaging

Rachel Corzine Author

07/28/2021 Added

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Rachel Corzine's presentation on Ghost Imaging, completed under the mentorship of Matthias Fuchs as a part of UNL's Summer Research Program

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[00:00:01.410]Hi everyone,my name is Rachel Corzine
[00:00:03.470]and I conducted my research this summer in ghost imaging.
[00:00:08.860]Ghost imaging is a fairly new imaging method
[00:00:11.050]that was first carried out in the 1990s by Dr. Yanhua Shih
[00:00:14.350]and his coworkers at
[00:00:15.183]the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
[00:00:18.120]and their research was based in the theoretical work
[00:00:20.200]done by David Klyshko.
[00:00:21.870]Figure 1 is a reconstruction of the first ghost image
[00:00:24.240]that they took.
[00:00:25.100]You can see that they imaged the UNBC logo.
[00:00:28.210]So this leads us to the question of what exactly is
[00:00:30.680]ghost imaging.
[00:00:31.780]Conventional camera systems use light that is transmitted or
[00:00:34.870]backscattered by an object,
[00:00:36.415]to form an image of the object on a film
[00:00:38.880]or on a focal point detector array.
[00:00:41.050]Ghost imaging, by contrast, is an indirect imaging method
[00:00:44.130]that takes the image of an object using
[00:00:45.880]spatial intensity correlation measurements.
[00:00:48.520]It is called ghost imaging because
[00:00:49.970]unlike conventional photography,
[00:00:51.570]the light transmitted by the object
[00:00:53.180]never interacts with the camera.
[00:00:55.170]There can be two main types of ghost imaging,
[00:00:57.300]quantum ghost imaging and classical ghost imaging.
[00:01:00.080]Quantum ghost imaging is any ghost imaging methods that
[00:01:02.500]relies on quantum correlations,
[00:01:04.460]that is the correlations of measurements of
[00:01:06.330]individual photons,
[00:01:07.475]and classical ghost imaging is any ghost imaging method
[00:01:10.080]that relies on classical correlations,
[00:01:12.700]that is correlations not on the individual photon scale.
[00:01:17.810]The goal of our research in ghost imaging was to
[00:01:19.810]investigate and comprehend the different methods
[00:01:21.960]of ghost imaging and how they work,
[00:01:24.100]and to develop our own successful ghost imaging design.
[00:01:27.080]The long term goal of our research is to
[00:01:28.710]develop sufficiently robust ghost imaging design
[00:01:31.500]to be used as an imaging method in future research at UNL.
[00:01:34.906]Our research in each type of ghost imaging is to prepare for
[00:01:37.880]carrying out quantum ghost imaging,
[00:01:39.890]as it is the most difficult method of ghost imaging to do,
[00:01:43.070]and is expected to be the most advantageous
[00:01:45.020]ghost imaging method,
[00:01:45.937]having applications in both low light imaging
[00:01:48.207]and subwavelength resolution crystallography.
[00:01:52.200]Figure 2 is a simplified diagram
[00:01:53.980]explaining the design of quantum ghost imaging.
[00:01:56.490]To do quantum ghost imaging,
[00:01:58.800]a laser passes through a nonlinear optical crystal,
[00:02:01.640]producing a pair of quantum entangled photons
[00:02:03.750]through the process of spontaneous parametric
[00:02:05.560]down-conversion.
[00:02:07.070]The quantum entanglement of the photons gives the two beams
[00:02:09.840]of photons correlations in both their position and momentum
[00:02:13.160]for each individual photon.
[00:02:15.200]One beam of photons, the idler beam,
[00:02:17.200]does not interact with the object,
[00:02:18.850]hence its name, and is directed at a pixelated detector,
[00:02:21.815]which is a detector that can record spatial information.
[00:02:25.660]The other beam, the signal beam, is directed at the object
[00:02:28.480]and the transmitted light is recorded by a bucket detector.
[00:02:31.940]A buckets detector cannot record spatial information,
[00:02:34.272]it can only detect when a photon has hit the detector.
[00:02:37.281]Even though no spatial information of the object is able to
[00:02:40.640]be collected by the bucket detector,
[00:02:42.520]and no light transmitted by the object
[00:02:43.883]reaches the pixilated detector,
[00:02:46.190]a coincidence circuit between
[00:02:47.530]the pixelated and bucket detector
[00:02:49.330]allows the image to be formed.
[00:02:51.500]The coincidence circuit works by having that when
[00:02:53.950]the bucket detector receives the photon and the signal arm,
[00:02:56.870]then the pixelated detector will accord the spatial
[00:02:59.270]information of the correlated photons in the idler beam.
[00:03:02.700]Summing over all the photons detected,
[00:03:04.770]a shadow image of the object is formed.
[00:03:07.870]The work we accomplished in ghost imaging included
[00:03:10.070]preparing different aspects of the experiment to be ready to
[00:03:12.237]do quantum ghost imaging,
[00:03:14.170]as the actual full set up to do quantum ghost imaging
[00:03:16.490]is more detailed than figure 2 shows.
[00:03:18.870]To produce the quantum entangled photons
[00:03:20.910]an 800 nanometer laser passes through
[00:03:23.510]a non-linear frequency doubling crystal which yields
[00:03:26.577]400 and 800 nanometer light that are not spatially aligned.
[00:03:30.780]We then focused the 400 and 800 nanometer light into
[00:03:33.790]a third harmonic generation crystal,
[00:03:35.940]which yields 266, 400 and 800 nanometer light.
[00:03:39.820]Directing the 266 nanometer light into
[00:03:42.560]the spontaneous parametric down-conversion crystal
[00:03:45.138]would give 400 and 800 nanometer lights,
[00:03:48.110]but they're now quantum entangled and allow us to do
[00:03:50.660]two color quantum ghost imaging.
[00:03:52.920]We also experimented with finding the most efficient
[00:03:54.939]equipment to use as our bucket detectors specifically
[00:03:58.740]looking into using a photo multiplier tool.
[00:04:03.050]Comparing classical ghost imaging to quantum ghost imaging,
[00:04:06.060]the entangled quantum pair generation source is replaced by
[00:04:09.440]a classically correlated source that is divided into two by
[00:04:12.430]a beamsplitter as shown in figure three.
[00:04:15.220]The classical source can be anything that generates
[00:04:17.330]a changing random pattern in the intensity of a light source
[00:04:20.430]such as passing a coherent light beam through a
[00:04:22.440]rotating ground piece of glass.
[00:04:24.270]One copy of the beam is detected by a camera in the
[00:04:26.620]idler beam.
[00:04:27.640]The other beam eliminates the object in the signal arm,
[00:04:30.250]where the beamsplitter-object distance
[00:04:31.860]is equal to the beamsplitter-camera distance,
[00:04:34.260]so that each detector receives the same pattern
[00:04:36.380]at exactly the same time.
[00:04:38.330]A photodiode acting as a bucket detector detects the light
[00:04:41.210]transmitted by the object, where the photodiode position
[00:04:44.160]relative to the object is unimportant so long as
[00:04:46.890]the full beam is detected.
[00:04:49.940]One type of classical ghost imaging we did
[00:04:51.960]was computational ghost imaging,
[00:04:53.880]which we carried out using two different methods.
[00:04:56.300]The first method of computational ghost imaging we did
[00:04:58.680]is shown in figure 4.
[00:05:00.210]We created a spatially structured electric field using a
[00:05:02.810]spatial light modulator or SLM,
[00:05:05.200]that created a time-evolving photo-mask.
[00:05:08.020]SLM have an array of digital micromirrors
[00:05:10.470]that can reflect light towards an observer
[00:05:12.320]or deflect light away.
[00:05:14.200]The array creates a light pattern of black or white.
[00:05:17.120]A camera is not needed to record the light beam since the
[00:05:19.410]pattern generated is known.
[00:05:21.090]Therefore the light beam does not need to be split
[00:05:23.010]by a beamsplitter.
[00:05:24.280]A coherent light beam eliminates the SLM,
[00:05:26.265]producing a spatially modulated light beam,
[00:05:28.518]and the light beam is then directed at the object
[00:05:31.100]where the backscattered light is recorded by a photodiode.
[00:05:34.130]The photodiode signal varies between -1 and +1,
[00:05:38.070]indicating the strength of correlation between
[00:05:39.910]the random pattern generated and the shape of the object.
[00:05:42.890]A positive photodiode signal indicates a strong correlation
[00:05:45.840]between the random pattern and the shape of the object
[00:05:48.510]and a negative photodiode signal then indicates
[00:05:50.730]a weak correlation between the random pattern
[00:05:53.020]and the shape of the object,
[00:05:54.420]where the random pattern is again known because
[00:05:56.440]the pattern is programmed by the SLM.
[00:05:58.860]To produce the final image,
[00:06:00.040]one sums up all the random patterns generated
[00:06:02.422]multiplied by the average detector signal
[00:06:04.830]subtracted from the detector signal
[00:06:06.930]for that individual random pattern.
[00:06:09.410]The second computational ghost imaging method we did
[00:06:11.890]involves using simply a computer monitor
[00:06:14.010]and a camera as shown in figure five.
[00:06:16.460]In this method of computational ghost imaging,
[00:06:18.840]the light source is the computer monitor itself,
[00:06:21.280]where the random pattern is programmed to appear
[00:06:23.160]directly on the computer screen.
[00:06:24.956]The pattern that we generated was
[00:06:27.530]an alternating pattern of sines and cosines.
[00:06:30.540]The object is placed between the monitor
[00:06:32.190]and a camera directed at the screen.
[00:06:33.959]The camera functions as our bucket detector,
[00:06:36.500]and also allowed us to compare the ghost image result to a
[00:06:39.240]conventional image taken by the camera.
[00:06:41.490]I will be showing the results of this method of
[00:06:43.360]computational ghost imaging.
[00:06:46.500]Image 1 is the image taken by the camera
[00:06:48.710]of a UNL hand-cut paper logo
[00:06:51.160]and image two is the ghost image taken of the logo.
[00:06:53.910]Both original images were black and white
[00:06:56.050]and were recolored.
[00:06:57.036]Note looking at the ghost image that there's clearly an
[00:06:59.530]alternating intensity sinusoidal type pattern,
[00:07:02.730]and this is an artifact of the methodology that we used
[00:07:05.320]to do computational ghost imaging.
[00:07:08.380]Image 3 is the image of a Knox College hand-cut paper logo
[00:07:11.530]taken with the camera
[00:07:12.780]and image four is a ghost image taken of the logo.
[00:07:15.770]Again, the images were in black and white and recolored.
[00:07:18.340]Note that again, we see the same sinusodial type pattern.
[00:07:21.770]And just for fun, the last ghost image results we have
[00:07:24.700]are images we took of a paper ghost.
[00:07:26.870]Image 5 is the image taken with the camera
[00:07:29.040]and image 6 is the ghost image.
[00:07:32.550]I thoroughly went through and understood
[00:07:34.100]computational ghost imaging,
[00:07:35.716]both as a proof of concept
[00:07:37.720]and as preparation of materials to carry out
[00:07:39.860]quantum ghost imaging,
[00:07:40.852]which is more involved but also more advantageous.
[00:07:44.380]I explored and dealt with nonlinear, optical crystals
[00:07:46.850]and single photon counting sources and the challenges
[00:07:49.540]that they present in the modern laboratory.
[00:07:51.700]The research I did in ghost imaging this summer
[00:07:53.590]has brought us closer to being able to
[00:07:55.120]successfully carry out quantum ghost imaging.
[00:07:57.612]I would like to acknowledge the effort of Tom Reardon,
[00:08:00.340]Alexander Y-A Saw and Hunter Parker.
[00:08:02.420]This material is based on work supported by the
[00:08:04.670]National Science Foundation.
[00:08:06.350]These are the references that I used
[00:08:07.790]and thank you for listening.

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