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We demonstrate numerically a method of focusing two-photon field inside one-dimensional random media. The approach is based on coherent control of backscattering achieved by adaptive spectral pulse shaping. The spectral phases of a…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-02 Alex C. Han , Valery Milner

We show that the polarization state of coherent light propagating through an optically thick multiple-scattering medium, can be controlled by wavefront shaping, i.e. by controlling only the spatial phase of the incoming field with a spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yefeng Guan , Ori Katz , Eran Small , Jianying Zhou , Yaron Silberberg

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

We present an optical wavefront shaping approach that allows tracking and localization of signal hidden inside or behind a scattering medium. The method combines traditional feedback based wavefront shaping together with a switch function,…

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…

Wavefront shaping allows focusing light through or inside strongly scattering media, but the background intensity also increases due to long-range correlations, reducing the target's contrast. By manipulating non-local intensity…

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

We enhanced the total transmission of light through a disordered waveguide with spatially inhomogeneous scattering and loss by shaping the incident wavefront of a laser beam. Using an on-chip tapered lead, we were able to access all input…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-20 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao

Wavefront-shaping is a promising approach for imaging fluorescent targets deep inside scattering tissue despite strong aberrations. It enables focusing an incoming illumination into a single spot inside tissue, as well as correcting the…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-23 Dror Aizik , Anat Levin

Deep, high-resolution imaging is essential for unraveling biological complexity and advancing medical diagnostics, yet scattering fundamentally limits optical methods. Among the most promising approaches, photoacoustic imaging achieves…

Light scattering within scattering media presents a substantial obstacle to optical transmission. A speckle pattern with random amplitude and phase distribution is observed when coherent light travels through strong scattering media.…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-01 Hui Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoxue Zhang , Xudong Chen , Zhili Lin

Multiple scattering rapidly scrambles optical fields in fog, snow and turbid water, causing op- timized wavefront corrections to become obsolete on microsecond timescales. Although wavefront shaping enables focusing through static…

Several matrix approaches were developed to control light propagation through multiple scattering media under illumination of ultrashort pulses of light. These matrices can be recorded either with spectral or temporal resolution. Thanks to…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-08 Mickael Mounaix , Duc Minh Ta , Sylvain Gigan

Optical focusing through/inside scattering media, like multimode fiber and biological tissues, has significant impact in biomedicine yet considered challenging due to strong scattering nature of light. Previously, promising progress has…

Scattering hinders the passage of light through random media and consequently limits the usefulness of optical techniques for sensing and imaging. Thus, methods for increasing the transmission of light through such random media are of…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Curtis Jin , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Eric Michielssen , Stephen Rand

Random scattering of light is what makes materials such as white paint, clouds and biological tissue opaque. We show that although light propagating in these media is diffuse, a high degree of control is possible as phase information is not…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Vellekoop , A. P. Mosk

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

Wavefront shaping is a technique for directing light through turbid media. The theoretical aspects of wavefront shaping are well understood, and under near-ideal experimental conditions, accurate predictions for the expected signal…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-01 Bahareh Mastiani , Daniël W. S. Cox , Ivo M. Vellekoop

Focusing light through turbid media presents a highly fascinating challenge in modern biophotonics. The unique capability of optoacoustics for high resolution imaging of light absorption contrast in deep tissues can provide a natural and…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-03 X. Luís Deán-Ben , Héctor Estrada , Daniel Razansky

A random medium can serve as a controllable arbitrary spectral filter with spectral resolution determined by the inverse of the interaction time of the light in the medium. We use wavefront shaping to implement an arbitrary spectral…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Eran Small , Ori Katz , Yefeng Guan , Yaron Silberberg