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Applied Physics Letters / Volume 100 / Issue 6 / PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS

Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 061126 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3684613 (4 pages)

Virtual ghost imaging through turbulence and obscurants using Bessel beam illumination

Ronald E. Meyers1, Keith S. Deacon1, Arnold D. Tunick1, and Yanhua Shih2

1US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, Maryland 20783, USA
2Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA

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(Received 9 November 2011; accepted 24 January 2012; published online 10 February 2012)

We experimentally demonstrate a single sensor virtual ghost imaging (VGI) configuration that uses the physics of nearly diffraction free light sources to penetrate partially obscuring media or turbulent media and generate images of remote opaque objects. Randomly displaced nearly diffraction free Bessel beams provided improved illumination patterns for VGI and resolving small distant targets. VGI recovered the image of objects even when the coarse illuminating Bessel beam was transmitted through obscuring and turbulent media or through a small transversely displaced aperture. Bessel beam experiments are compared with Gaussian beam experiments under similar conditions.

© 2012 American Institute of Physics

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Keywords

image processing, laser beams, light diffraction

PACS

  • 42.30.-d

    Imaging and optical processing

  • 42.60.Jf

    Beam characteristics: profile, intensity, and power; spatial pattern formation

International Patent Classification (IPC)

  • G06T

    Image data processing or generation, in general

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3684613

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0003-6951 (print)  
1077-3118 (online)

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