A scheme for fourth-order double-slit ghost interference with a pseudo-thermal light source is proposed. It is shown that not only can the visibility be dramatically enhanced compared to the third-order case, but also...A scheme for fourth-order double-slit ghost interference with a pseudo-thermal light source is proposed. It is shown that not only can the visibility be dramatically enhanced compared to the third-order case, but also higher resolution is demonstrated if we scan two of three reference detectors in opposite directions with the same speed, meanwhile another two in identical directions where the speed of one reference detector is twice the other. The results show that the visibility and resolution improvement of the fourth-order ghost interference fringe can be applied to the Nth-order ghost imaging.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2012CB921804the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61078002,61078020,11104214,61108017,11104216 and 61205112+2 种基金the Research Funds for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant Nos 20110201110006,20110201120005 and 20100201120031the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Ministry of Education of China under Grant Nos 2012jdhz05,2011jdhz07,xjj2011083,xjj2011084,xjj2012080 and xjj2013089the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No2012M521773
文摘A scheme for fourth-order double-slit ghost interference with a pseudo-thermal light source is proposed. It is shown that not only can the visibility be dramatically enhanced compared to the third-order case, but also higher resolution is demonstrated if we scan two of three reference detectors in opposite directions with the same speed, meanwhile another two in identical directions where the speed of one reference detector is twice the other. The results show that the visibility and resolution improvement of the fourth-order ghost interference fringe can be applied to the Nth-order ghost imaging.