The invention provides an adaptive
coincidence gate width optimization
quantum imaging method based on a scattering free path. Firstly, pump light pumps a PPKTP
crystal, and an entangled
photon pair is generated through the SPDC process; then, separating the photons by using a PBS (
Phosphate Buffer Solution), transmitting the photons along a reference light path and a
signal light path containing a scattering environment respectively, and acquiring a
photon arrival time sequence by a corresponding
detector; thirdly, simulating a transmission process of
signal photons in a scattering environment based on a Monte Carlo method, calculating a total scattering free path, counting the number of photons of each pixel point under different scattering times, and further screening out the optimal scattering times with the maximum number of photons; then, calculating a
delay inequality according to a minimum total scattering free path corresponding to the optimal number of scattering times, and determining a self-adaptive
coincidence gate width in combination with a fluctuation range of the total scattering free path; and finally, correcting a
signal photon arrival time sequence by using the
delay inequality, completing pixel-by-pixel
coincidence counting based on the corrected
time sequence and the coincidence gate width, and obtaining a
quantum grayscale image through linear mapping.