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Exploiting the Time-Reversal Operator for Adaptive Optics, Selective Focusing and Scattering Pattern Analysis

Optics 2015-05-30 v4

Abstract

We report on the experimental measurement of the backscattering matrix of a weakly scattering medium in optics, composed of a few dispersed gold nanobeads. The DORT method (Decomposition of the Time Reversal Operator) is applied to this matrix and we demonstrate selective and efficient focusing on individual scatterers, even through an aberrating layer. Moreover, we show that this approach provides the decomposition of the scattering pattern of a single nanoparticle. These results open important perspectives for optical imaging, characterization and selective excitation of nanoparticles.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2449,
  title  = {Exploiting the Time-Reversal Operator for Adaptive Optics, Selective Focusing and Scattering Pattern Analysis},
  author = {Sébastien Michel Popoff and Alexandre Aubry and Geoffroy Lerosey and Mathias Fink and Albert-Claude Boccara and Sylvain Gigan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2449},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages

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