Ghost imaging for an occluded object

Abstract

Imaging for an occluded object is usually a difficult problem, in this letter, we introduce an imaging scheme based on computational ghost imaging, which can obtain the image of a target object behind an obstacle. According to our theoretical analysis, once the distance between the object and the obstacle is far enough, one can obtain the image of the object by using ghost imaging technique. The wavelength of the light source also affects the quality of the reconstructed image. In addition, if the bucket detector is placed far away from the obstacle, a tiny point-like detector without collecting lens can be applied to realize the imaging. These theoretical results above have been verified with our numerical simulations. Furthermore, the robustness of this imaging scheme is also investigated.

12 pages, 6 figures