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Wavefront shaping is increasingly being used in modern microscopy to obtain distortion-free, high-resolution images deep inside inhomogeneous media. Wavefront shaping methods typically rely on the presence of a 'guidestar' in order to find…

The recent advent of wave-shaping methods has demonstrated the focusing of light through and inside even the most strongly scattering materials. Typically in wavefront shaping, light is focused in an area with the size of one speckle spot.…

Complex structure formation and fast focusing of light inside or through turbid media is a challenging task due to refractive index heterogeneity, random light scattering and speckle noise formation. Here, we have proposed a…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-11 Amit Kumar , Sarvesh Thakur , S. K. Biswas

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…

We study the focusing of light through random photonic materials using wavefront shaping. We explore a novel approach namely binary amplitude modulation. To this end, the light incident to a random photonic medium is spatially divided into…

Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

Scattering often limits the controlled delivery of light in applications such as biomedical imaging, optogenetics, optical trapping, and fiber-optic communication or imaging. Such scattering can be controlled by appropriately shaping the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-19 Alex Turpin , Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig

Manipulating the propagation of light through scattering media remains a major challenge for many applications, including astronomy, biomedical imaging and colloidal optics. Wavefront shaping is one of the most promising ways to mitigate…

Wavefield focusing is often achieved by Time-Reversal Mirrors, where wavefields emitted by a source located at the focal point are evaluated at a closed boundary and sent back, after Time-Reversal, into the medium from that boundary.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Giovanni Angelo Meles , Joost van der Neut , Koen W. A. van Dongen , Kees Wapenaar

Optically-levitated nanoparticles in vacuum offer a pristine platform for high-quality mechanical oscillators, enabling a wide range of precision measurements and quantum technologies. A key performance metric in such systems is the…

We demonstrate the control of entanglement of a single photon between several spatial modes propagating through a strongly scattering medium. Measurement of the scattering matrix allows the wavefront of the photon to be shaped to compensate…

Precise light delivery through biological tissue is essential for deep-tissue imaging and phototherapeutic applications. Wavefront shaping enables control over scattered light by modulating the incident wavefront, but its application in…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Xuan Liu , Sebastien Ourselin , Tianrui Zhao

Lossless linear wave propagation is symmetric in time, a principle which can be used to create time reversed waves. Such waves are special 'pre-scattered' spatiotemporal fields, which propagate through a complex medium as if observing a…

A perfectly collimated beam can be spread out by multiple scattering, creating a speckle pattern and increasing the etendue of the system. Standard optical systems conserve etendue, and thus are unable to reverse the process by transforming…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-23 Alba M. Paniagua-Diaz , William L. Barnes , Jacopo Bertolotti

One of the greatest challenges in utilizing multimode optical fibers is mode-mixing and inter-modal interference, which scramble the information delivered by the fiber. A common approach for canceling these effects is to tailor the optical…

Achieving precise control of light intensity in 3D volumes is highly in demand in many applications in optics. Various wavefront shaping techniques have been utilized to reconstruct a target amplitude profile within a 3D space. However,…

Three-photon (3P) microscopy is getting traction due to its superior performance in deep tissues. Yet, aberrations and light scattering still pose one of the main limitations in the attainable depth ranges for high-resolution imaging. Here,…

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

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

Wavefront sensors encode phase information of an incoming wavefront into an intensity pattern that can be measured on a camera. Several kinds of wavefront sensors (WFS) are used in astronomical adaptive optics. Amongst them, Fourier-based…