Turbulence-free ghost imaging

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2011-03-18

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Meyers, Ronald E., Keith S. Deacon, and Yanhua Shih. “Turbulence-Free Ghost Imaging.” Applied Physics Letters 98, no. 11 (2011): 111115. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3567931.

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Atmospheric turbulence is a serious problem for satellite and aircraft-to-ground based classical imaging. Taking advantage of the natural, nonfactorizable, point-to-point correlation of thermal light, this experiment demonstrated turbulence-free ghost imaging, which will be extremely useful for these applications. In addition, this observation suggests that the nontrivial intensity-intensity correlation of thermal light cannot be caused by the statistical correlation of intensity fluctuations.