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Temporal ghost imaging

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Ghost imaging allows the creation of images using light that never interacts with the object. Researchers now show that this technique can be applied to reconstruct temporal 'images' of rapidly varying, picosecond signals in telecommunication systems.

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Figure 1: Spatial ghost imaging in its simplest adaption.
Figure 2: Temporal ghost imaging follows the same conceptual steps as the spatial ghost imaging layout shown in Fig. 1.

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  1. Daniele Faccio is at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK,

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Faccio, D. Temporal ghost imaging. Nature Photon 10, 150–152 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.30

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