Motion-deblurring ghost imaging for an axially moving target.

Abstract

For lensless ghost imaging (GI) with thermal light, the axially relative motion constrained in the range of the system's depth of focus (DOF) can still cause image blurring because of a variable magnification. We propose a motion-deblurring GI system with pseudo-thermal light, which can overcome the resolution degradation caused by the axial motion. Both the analytical and experimental results demonstrate that high-resolution GI can be always obtained as long as the target's random motion range is smaller than the system's DOF, without using the prior information of motion estimation. We also show that the system's DOF can be extended by optimizing the geometrical shape of the laser spot on the rotating ground glass disk (RGGD). The imaging performance comparison between the proposed GI system and the corresponding lensless GI system is also discussed. This technique can promote the practical application of GI in the field of moving-target detection and recognition.