Color Ghost Imaging with Pseudo-White-Thermal Light^*

A pseudo-white-thermal light source is prepared by projecting three (red, green, and blue) laser beams onto a rotating ground glass disk. Based on the RGB color model, we investigate the color Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) effect and color ghost imaging with thermal light. The color HBT effect indicates that photons of the same color will bunch. This fact ensures the chromatic discrimination power of ghost imaging with thermal light. We retrieve the RGB ingredients of the object through intensity correlation measurements. A method of white balance to properly form the ghost images is proposed.