title: Classical far-field phase-sensitive ghost imaging.
abstract: We report the first (to our knowledge) far-field ghost images formed with phase-sensitive classical-state light and compare them with ghost images of the same object formed with conventional phase-insensitive classical-state light. To generate signal and reference beams with phase-sensitive cross correlation, we used a pair of synchronized spatial light modulators that imposed random, spatially varying, anticorrelated phase modulation on the outputs from 50-50 beam splitting of a laser beam. In agreement with theory, we found the phase-sensitive image to be inverted, whereas the phase-insensitive image is erect, with both having comparable spatial resolutions and signal-to-noise ratios.
authors.affiliation: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. dheera@mit.edu
authors.forename: Dheera
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Venkatraman
authors.forename: Nicholas D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Hardy
authors.forename: Franco N C
authors.initials: FN
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Jeffrey H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Shapiro