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Optical wavefront-shaping has emerged as a powerful tool to manipulate light in strongly scattering media. It enables diffraction-limited focusing and imaging at depths where conventional microscopy techniques fail. However, while most…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-04 T. Chaigne , O. Katz , A. C. Boccara , M. Fink , E. Bossy , S. Gigan

Due to the highly inhomogeneous distributions of refractive indexes, light propagation in complex media such as biological tissue experiences multiple light scattering events. The suppression and control of multiple light scattering events…

Optical imaging through complex media, such as biological tissues or fog, is challenging due to light scattering. In the multiple scattering regime, wavefront shaping provides an effective method to retrieve information; it relies on…

Electronic matter waves traveling through the weak and smoothly varying disorder potential of a semi-conductor show branching behavior instead of a smooth spreading of flow. By transferring this phenomenon to optics, we show how the…

Light is the tool of the 21st century. New photosensitive tools offer the possibility to monitor and control neuronal activity from the sub-cellular to the integrative level. This ongoing revolution has motivated the development of new…

The wavefront is scrambled when coherent light propagates through a random scattering medium and which makes direct use of the conventional optical methods ineffective. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a structured light…

We introduce a non-invasive approach for optogenetic regulation in biological cells through highly scattering skull tissue using wavefront shaping. The wavefront of the incident light was systematically controlled using a spatial light…

Controlling light scattering by nanoparticles is fundamentally important for the understanding and the control of light with photonic nanostructures, as well as for nanoparticle scattering itself, including Mie scattering. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-04 Peilong Hong , Willem L. Vos

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…

Non-invasive optical focusing inside scattering media is still a big challenge because inhomogeneous media scatter both incoming photons for focusing and outgoing photons for observation. Various approaches, utilizing non-linear…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Dayan Li , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Huy Quoc Lam , Dong Wang , Cuong Dang

Recent remarkable progress in wave-front shaping has enabled control of light propagation inside linear media to focus and image through scattering objects. In particular, light propagation in multimode fibers comprises complex intermodal…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-07-17 Omer Tzang , Antonio M. Caravaca-Aguirre , Kelvin Wagner , Rafael Piestun

Wavefront shaping techniques allow waves to be focused on a diffraction-limited target deep inside disordered media. To identify the target position, a guidestar is required that typically emits a frequency-shifted signal. Here we present a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Antton Goïcoechea , Jakob Hüpfl , Stefan Rotter , François Sarrazin , Matthieu Davy

Scattering in complex media scrambles light, thus obscuring images and limiting applications from astronomy to microscopy. Existing computational and wavefront-shaping methods treat scattering as a linear optical-wave inversion problem that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Chloé Vernière , Raphaël Guitter , Baptiste Courme , Hugo Defienne

We present a new approach for spatiotemporal focusing through complex scattering media by wave front shaping. Using a nonlinear feedback signal to shape the incident pulsed wave front, we show that the limit of a spatiotemporal matched…

Wavefront shaping has revolutionized imaging deep in scattering media, being able to spatially and temporally refocus light through or inside the medium. However, wavefront shaping is not compatible yet with polarization-resolved microscopy…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-26 Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan , Sophie Brasselet

Focusing light through dynamically varying heterogeneous media is a sought-after goal with important applications ranging from free-space communication to nano-surgery. The underlying challenge is to control the optical wavefront with a…

The scattering of light impacts sensing and communication technologies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Overcoming the effects of time-varying scattering media is particularly challenging. In this article we introduce a new way to…

A fundamental challenge in physics is controlling the propagation of waves in disordered media despite strong scattering from inhomogeneities. Spatial light modulators enable one to synthesize (shape) the incident wavefront, optimizing the…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-15 Chia Wei Hsu , Seng Fatt Liew , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , A. Douglas Stone

We experimentally demonstrate increased transmission of light through strongly scattering materials. Wavefront shaping is used to selectively couple light to the open transport channels in the material, resulting in an increase of up to 44%…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. M. Vellekoop , A. P. Mosk

Optical design and fabrication techniques are crucial for making optical elements. From conventional lenses to diffractive optical elements, and to recent metasurfaces, various types of optical elements have been proposed to manipulate…