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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Fluorescence ghost imaging

Giuliano Scarcelli, Seok Hyun Yun

Published Aug 20, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a method of using the second-order correlation of entangled photon pairs for fluorescence imaging. The method relies on the fact that one photon of the pair carries information on where the other photon has been absorbed and has produced fluorescence in a sample. Because fluorescent molecules serve as "detectors" breaking the entanglement, multiply-scattered fluorescence photons within the sample do not cause image blur. We discuss practical implementations.

DOI
10.1117/12.824390

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