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Coherent illumination reflected by a remote target may be secondarily scattered by intermediate objects or materials. Here we show that phase retrieval on remotely observed images of such scattered fields enables imaging of the illuminated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-24 Qian Huang , Zhipeng Dong , Yuzuru Takashima , Timothy J. Schulz , David J. Brady

Propagation of light in a highly scattering medium is among the most fascinating optical effect that everyone experiences on an everyday basis and possesses a number of fundamental problems which have yet to be solved. Conventional wisdom…

Imaging with the second-order correlation of two light fields is a method to image an object by two-photon interference involving a joint detection of two photons at distant space-time points. We demonstrate for the first time that an image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Wenlin Gong , Pengli Zhang , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

We demonstrate focusing and imaging through a scattering medium noninvasively by using wavefront shaping. Our concept is based on utilizing the spatial fluorescence contrast which naturally exists in the hidden target object. By scanning…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-25 Anat Daniel , Dan Oron , Yaron Silberberg

In this paper we analyze an imaging technique based on intensity speckle correlations over incident field position proposed in [J. A. Newmann and K. J. Webb, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263903 (2014)]. Its purpose is to reconstruct a field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

The problem of imaging extended targets (sources or scatterers) is formulated in the framework of compressed sensing with emphasis on subwavelength resolution. The proposed formulation of the problems of inverse source/scattering is…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-15 Albert C. Fannjiang

Random scattering of light in disordered media is an intriguing phenomenon of fundamental relevance to various applications. While techniques such as wavefront shaping and transmission matrix measurements have enabled remarkable progress…

Invisibility devices exploit ambiguities in the inverse scattering problem of light in media. Scattering also serves as an important general tool to infer information about the structure of matter. We elucidate the nature of scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Awatif Hendi , Julian Henn , Ulf Leonhardt

Full-field imaging through scattering media is fraught with many challenges. Despite many achievements in recent years, current imaging methods are too slow to deal with fast dynamics that occur for example in biomedical imaging. Here we…

The optical medium analogy of a radiation field generated by either an exact gravitational plane wave or an exact electromagnetic wave in the framework of general relativity is developed. The equivalent medium of the associated background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Pierluigi Fortini , Andrea Geralico , Maria Haney , Antonello Ortolan

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

Recording and identifying faint objects through atmospheric scattering media by an optical system are fundamentally interesting and technologically important. In this work, we introduce a comprehensive model that incorporates contributions…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-24 Libang Chen , Jun Yang , Lingye Chen , Yuyang Shui , Yikun Liu , Jianying Zhou

At radio wavelengths, scattering in the interstellar medium distorts the appearance of astronomical sources. Averaged over a scattering ensemble, the result is a blurred image of the source. However, Narayan & Goodman (1989) and Goodman &…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-19 Michael D. Johnson , Carl R. Gwinn

Light passing through scattering media will be strongly scattered and diffused into complex speckle pattern, which contains almost all the spatial information and spectral information of the objects. Although various methods have been…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-04 Lei Zhu , Jietao Liu , Lei Feng , Chengfei Guo , Tengfei Wu , Xiaopeng Shao

Imaging the propagation of light in time and space is crucial in optics, notably for the study of complex media. We here demonstrate the passive measurement of time-dependent Green's functions between every point at the surface of a…

Multiple optical scattering occurs when light propagates in a non-uniform medium. During the multiple scattering, images were distorted and the spatial information they carried became scrambled. However, the image information is not lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Xinyu Gao , Yi Li , Yanqing Qiu , Bangning Mao , Miaogen Chen , Yanlong Meng , Chunliu Zhao , Juan Kang , Yong Guo , Changyu Shen

Light passing through scattering media will be strongly scattered and diffused into complex speckle pattern, which however contains almost all the spatial information and color information of the objects. Although various technologies have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Lei Zhu , Yuxiang Wu , Jietao Liu , Tengfei Wu , Lixian Liu , Xiaopeng Shao

Rendering volumetric scattering media, including clouds, fog, smoke, and other complex materials, is crucial for realism in computer graphics. Traditional path tracing, while unbiased, requires many long path samples to converge in scenes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Becky Hu , Xi Deng , Fujun Luan , Miloš Hašan , Steve Marschner

Imaging through scattering media is a challenging problem owing to speckle decorrelations from perturbations in the media itself. For in-line imaging modalities, which are appealing because they are compact, require no moving parts, and are…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-16 Siddharth Rawat , Jonathan Wendoloski , Anna Wang