Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Institute of Signal Processing & Transmission, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT),Nanjing 210003, China
2 2Key Lab of Broadband Wireless Communication and Sensor Network Technology, NUPT, Ministry of Education, Nanjing
Ghost imaging could be used to make a quick identification of orthogonal objects by means of photocurrent correlation measurements. In this paper, we extend the method to identify nonorthogonal objects. In the method, an object is illuminated by one photon from an entangled pair, and the other one is diffracted into a particular direction by a pre-established multiple-exposure hologram in the idler arm. By the correlation measurements, the nonorthogonal object in the signal arm could be discriminated within a very short time. The constraints for the identification of nonorthogonal objects are presented, which show that the nonorthogonal objects can be discriminated when the overlapping portion between any two objects is less than half of all the objects in the set. The numerical simulations further verify the result.
Image detection systems Image detection systems Quantum information and processing Quantum information and processing Photonics Research
2015, 3(5): 05000238