Classical correlated imaging from the perspective of coherent-mode representation

Jing Cheng and Shensheng Han
Phys. Rev. A 76, 023824 – Published 27 August 2007

Abstract

We use coherent-mode representation of partially coherent fields to analyze correlated imaging with classical light sources. This formalism is very useful to study the imaging quality. By decomposing the unknown object as the superposition of different coherent modes, the components corresponding to small eigenvalues cannot be well imaged. The generated images depend crucially on the distribution of the eigenvalues of the coherent-mode representation of the source and the decomposition coefficients of the objects. Three kinds of correlated imaging schemes are analyzed numerically.

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  • Received 26 January 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.023824

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Jing Cheng1 and Shensheng Han2

  • 1School of Physical Science and Technology, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • 2Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics and Center for Cold Atom Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Vol. 76, Iss. 2 — August 2007

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