Ghost Imaging with High Visibility Using Classical Light Source**Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant No 2012CB921900, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11534006, 11274183 and 11374166, and the National Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project under Grant No 2012YQ17004.

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a novel ghost imaging experiment utilizing a classical light source, capable of resolving objects with a high visibility. The experimental results show that our scheme can indeed realize ghost imaging with high visibility for a relatively complicated object composed of three near-ellipse-shaped holes with different dimensions. In our experiment, the largest hole is ~36 times of the smallest one in area. Each of the three holes exhibits high-visibility in excess of 80%. The high visibility and high spatial-resolution advantages of this technique could have applications in remote sensing.