Single-shot thermal ghost imaging using wavelength-division multiplexing

Abstract: Ghost imaging (GI) is a potential imaging technique that reconstructs the target scene from its correlated measurements with a sequential of patterns. Restricted by the multi-shot principle, GI usually requires long acquisition time and is limited in observation of dynamic scenes. To handle this problem, this paper proposes a single-shot thermal ghost imaging scheme via wavelength-division multiplexing technique. Specifically, we generate thousands of patterns simultaneously by modulating a broadband light source with a wavelength dependent diffuser. These patterns carry the scene's spatial information and then the correlated measurements are coupled into a spectrometer for the final reconstruction. This technique accelerates the ghost imaging speed significantly and promotes the applications in dynamic ghost imaging.