Spectral ensemble ghost imaging

Abstract

In the last few years, the field of ghost imaging has seen many new developments. From computational ghost imaging to 3D gh.ost imaging, this field has shown many interesting applications. But the method of obtaining an image in ghost imaging experiments still requires data to be recorded over a long duration of time due to averaging over many shots of data. We propose a method to get the intensity correlated images in one shot by averaging over different wavelength components rather than different time components. We derive the maximum number of wavelength components that can be used for a given multi-wavelength source. The applicability of this scheme is finally verified by numerical simulations.