title: High contrast ballistic imaging using femtosecond optical Kerr gate of tellurite glass.
abstract: We investigated the ballistic imaging technique using femtosecond optical Kerr gate of a tellurite glass. High contrast images of an object hidden behind turbid media were obtained. Compared to the conventional femtosecond optical Kerr gate using fused quartz, the optical Kerr gate using tellurite glass has more capacity to acquire high quality images of the object hidden behind a high optical density turbid medium. The experimental results indicated that the tellurite glass is a good candidate as the optical Kerr material for the ballistic imaging technique due to its large optical nonlinearity.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education, School of Electronic and information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xianning-xilu 28, Xi’an, 710049, China.
authors.forename: Wenjiang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Zhiguang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Aoxiang
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Jinhai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Si
authors.forename: Pingping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhan
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hou
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009391:Nephelometry and Turbidimetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013691:Tellurium / Q000737:chemistry*; D014054:Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: C026660:tellurous acid; D013691:Tellurium