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Focusing large spectral bandwidths through scattering media

Optics 2019-10-23 v1

Abstract

Wavefront shaping is a powerful method to refocus light through a scattering medium. Its application to large spectral bandwidths or multiple wavelengths refocusing for nonlinear bio-imaging in-depth is however limited by spectral decorrelations. In this work, we demonstrate ways to access a large spectral memory of a refocus in thin scattering media and thick forward-scattering biological tissues. First, we show that the accessible spectral bandwidth through a scattering medium involves an axial spatio-spectral coupling, which can be minimized when working in a confocal geometry. Second, we show that this bandwidth can be further enlarged when working in a broadband excitation regime. These results open important prospects for multispectral nonlinear imaging through scattering media.

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@article{arxiv.1908.01243,
  title  = {Focusing large spectral bandwidths through scattering media},
  author = {Arturo G. Vesga and Matthias Hofer and Naveen Kumar Balla and Hilton B. De Aguiar and Marc Guillon and Sophie Brasselet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01243},
  year   = {2019}
}
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