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Ghost Spectroscopy with Classical Thermal Light Emitted by a Superluminescent Diode

Patrick Janassek, Sébastien Blumenstein, and Wolfgang Elsäßer*

  • Institute of Applied Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

  • *elsaesser@physik.tu-darmstadt.de
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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 021001 – Published 7 February, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.021001

Abstract

We propose and realize the first classical ghost-imaging (GI) experiment in the frequency or wavelength domain, thus performing ghost spectroscopy using thermal light exhibiting photon bunching. The required wavelength correlations are provided by light emitted by spectrally broadband near-infrared amplified spontaneous emission of a semiconductor-based superluminescent diode. They are characterized by wavelength-resolved intensity cross-correlation measurements utilizing two-photon-absorption interferometry. Finally, a real-world spectroscopic application of this ghost spectroscopy with a classical light scheme is demonstrated in which an absorption band of trichloromethane (chloroform) at 1214 nm is reconstructed with a spectral resolution of 10 nm as a proof-of-principle experiment. This ghost-spectroscopy work fills the gap of a hitherto missing analogy between the spatial and the spectral domain in classical GI modalities, with the expectation of contributing towards a broader dissemination of correlated photon ghost modalities, hence paving the way towards more applications which exploit the favorable advantages.

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Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 021001– Published 7 February, 2018
  • Received 5 September 2017
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