Ghost infrared spectroscopy with bright twin beams
Abstract
Frequency-correlated light offers a route to mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy without direct spectral detection in the MIR. Previous MIR ghost spectroscopy has mainly relied on low-gain spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and photon-pair coincidence measurements, where the limited photon flux has restricted acquisition times to longer than one minute. Here, we demonstrate ghost infrared spectroscopy using bright twin beams generated by high-gain parametric down-conversion (PDC). High-gain PDC amplifies vacuum fluctuations, producing a different pair of frequency-correlated random spectra in each pump pulse. This pulse-resolved stochastic emission is naturally matched to time-stretch detection, which records the spectrum of the correlated near-infrared telecom signal for every pulse, while the MIR idler is measured by bucket detection. Consequently, each pump pulse yields one paired projection measurement comprising a spectrally resolved reference and the corresponding bucket value. We reconstruct the transmission spectrum of a structured optical filter and the molecular vibrational absorption spectrum of liquid benzene near 3.3 um with millisecond-scale acquisition, in good agreement with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. This reduces the acquisition time by four to five orders of magnitude compared with previous MIR ghost spectroscopy demonstrations. These results transform ghost spectroscopy from coincidence-based photon counting to high-flux analog correlation spectroscopy, establishing a practical architecture for high-speed computational infrared spectroscopy driven by a narrowband semiconductor laser.
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BibTeX
@misc{kawai2026ghost,
title = {{Ghost infrared spectroscopy with bright twin beams}},
author = {Akira Kawai and Makoto Shoshin and Kazuki Hashimoto and Takuro Ideguchi},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.30460},
eprint = {2608.30460},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30460},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Ghost infrared spectroscopy with bright twin beams
AU - Akira Kawai
AU - Makoto Shoshin
AU - Kazuki Hashimoto
AU - Takuro Ideguchi
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/31
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.30460
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30460
AB - Frequency-correlated light offers a route to mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy without direct spectral detection in the MIR. Previous MIR ghost spectroscopy has mainly relied on low-gain spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and photon-pair coincidence measurements, where the limited photon flux has restricted acquisition times to longer than one minute. Here, we demonstrate ghost infrared spectroscopy using bright twin beams generated by high-gain parametric down-conversion (PDC). High-gain PDC amplifies vacuum fluctuations, producing a different pair of frequency-correlated random spectra in each pump pulse. This pulse-resolved stochastic emission is naturally matched to time-stretch detection, which records the spectrum of the correlated near-infrared telecom signal for every pulse, while the MIR idler is measured by bucket detection. Consequently, each pump pulse yields one paired projection measurement comprising a spectrally resolved reference and the corresponding bucket value. We reconstruct the transmission spectrum of a structured optical filter and the molecular vibrational absorption spectrum of liquid benzene near 3.3 um with millisecond-scale acquisition, in good agreement with Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. This reduces the acquisition time by four to five orders of magnitude compared with previous MIR ghost spectroscopy demonstrations. These results transform ghost spectroscopy from coincidence-based photon counting to high-flux analog correlation spectroscopy, establishing a practical architecture for high-speed computational infrared spectroscopy driven by a narrowband semiconductor laser.
ER -