Electromagnetically induced holographic imaging

• An imaging scheme for a medium that has no any macro structure is proposed.
• The imaging can include both the amplitude and phase information of the object.
• This scheme is no subject to the periodic structure of the object to be imaged.
• The imaging has characteristic of arbitrarily controllable image variation in size.

The electromagnetically induced Talbot effect offers a nondestructive and lensless way to image ultracold atoms or molecules (Wen et al., 2011 [12]). In this paper, we propose another atomic imaging scheme based on the holographic imaging principle, in which three types of light source are employed as the imaging light to perform spatial interference. Compared to the previous self-imaging scheme, in the present one both the amplitude and phase information of the object can be imaged with the characteristic of arbitrarily controllable image variation in size, and the object to be imaged is no longer subject to the periodic structure.