title: Ghost imaging with intense fields from chaotically seeded parametric downconversion.
abstract: We present the first experimental demonstration, to the best of our knowledge, of ghost imaging realized with intense beams generated by a parametric downconversion interaction seeded with pseudothermal light. As expected, the real image of the object is reconstructed satisfying the thin-lens equation. We show that the experimental visibility of the reconstructed image is in accordance with the theoretically expected one.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (C.N.R-I.N.F.M.), Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy. emiliano.puddu@uninsubria.it
authors.forename: Emiliano
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Puddu
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Andreoni
authors.forename: Ivo Pietro
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Degiovanni
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bondani
authors.forename: Stefania
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Castelletto