The Fisrt Ghost Image ( I )

Ghost imaging was first demonstrated experimentally by Pittman et al.[1]in 1995 using entangled photon
pairs as the light source. Later, using a chaotic radiation or pseudo-thermal light source, a 50% contrast
ghost image of the object was observed in terms of coincidences between the CCD and a bucket detector
that receives the scattered and reflected photons from the object [2]. In 2004, Gatti et al. demonstrated
speckle-to-speckle classical correlation between two distant planes to image the speckles of the source onto
both the object and ghost-image planes [3]. In 2005, Zhang et al. demonstrated an experiment of two-photon
correlated imaging with true thermal light from a hollow cathode lamp [4]. In this paper, we wish to report
first experimental demonstration on two-photon ghost imaging using the Sun as a light source for field imaging applications.



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