Abstract

Ghost imaging can be used to detect objects in a nonstationary environment or in the presence of variable ambient light, making it attractive when conventional imaging methods are ineffective. However, the conventional ghost imaging algorithm is susceptible to temporal fluctuations in the detected signal. In this work, we propose a polarization-multiplexed auxiliary laser channel propagating along the same optical path with the main one. The signal in the auxiliary channel is used as a reference and allows the elimination of signal disturbance. A quantitative analysis and comparison of the proposed method’s performance to the high-pass filtering method are demonstrated. For an illumination pattern refresh rate of 10 Hz, effective suppression of bucket signal fluctuations has been experimentally demonstrated. For a disturbance frequency from 1 Hz to 10 Hz, the auxiliary channel method demonstrated a ghost image Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) of not less than 0.70, while the high-pass filtering method showed a PCC sharp drop from 0.65 to 0.02.

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