• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 4, 804 (2024)
Xiaoyu Nie1、2, Haotian Song2, Wenhan Ren1、2, Zhedong Zhang3、5, Tao Peng1、*, and Marlan O. Scully1、4、6
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
  • 2School of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
  • 3Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 4Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76706, USA
  • 5e-mail: zzhan26@cityu.edu.hk
  • 6e-mail: scully@tamu.edu
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.504327 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xiaoyu Nie, Haotian Song, Wenhan Ren, Zhedong Zhang, Tao Peng, Marlan O. Scully. Deep correlated speckles: suppressing correlation fluctuation and optical diffraction[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(4): 804 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    The generation of speckle patterns via random matrices, statistical definitions, or apertures may not always result in optimal outcomes. Issues such as correlation fluctuations in low ensemble numbers and diffraction in long-distance propagation can arise. Instead of improving results of specific applications, our solution is catching deep correlations of patterns with the framework, Speckle-Net, which is fundamental and universally applicable to various systems. We demonstrate this in computational ghost imaging (CGI) and structured illumination microscopy (SIM). In CGI with extremely low ensemble number, it customizes correlation width and minimizes correlation fluctuations in illuminating patterns to achieve higher-quality images. It also creates non-Rayleigh nondiffracting speckle patterns only through a phase mask modulation, which overcomes the power loss in the traditional ring-aperture method. Our approach provides new insights into the nontrivial speckle patterns and has great potential for a variety of applications including dynamic SIM, X-ray and photo-acoustic imaging, and disorder physics.
    Γ(2)(Δx,Δy)=ΔPi(x1,y1)ΔPi(x2,y2)=[m1,n1ΔCi(m1,n1)P(x1+m1,y1+n1)]×[m2,n2ΔCi(m2,n2)P(x2+m2,y2+n2)]=m1,2,n1,2ΔC(m1,n1)ΔC(m2,n2)×P(x1+m1,y1+n1)P(x2+m2,y2+n2)=m1,2,n1,2ΓC(2)(Δm,Δn)×P(x1+m1,y1+n1)P(x2+m2,y2+n2),

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    Γ(2)(x,y)=P(x,y)IP(x,y)I,

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    I(x,y,z)=|E(x,y,z)|2|IF{g(fx,fy)}H(fx,fy,z)|2,

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    C(z)=Var(I(x,y,z))I(x,y,z)¯,

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    Xiaoyu Nie, Haotian Song, Wenhan Ren, Zhedong Zhang, Tao Peng, Marlan O. Scully. Deep correlated speckles: suppressing correlation fluctuation and optical diffraction[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(4): 804
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