English
Related papers

Related papers: Scattering correlations of time-gated light

200 papers

We investigate anisotropy in Fourier-domain speckle correlations associated with the optical memory effect in disordered scattering media. Within a single scattering framework, we show that while the conventional memory effect constrains…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-06 Niall Byrnes , Matthew R. Foreman

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

Speckle patterns are inherent features of coherent light propagation through complex media. As a result of interference, they are sensitive to multiple experimental parameters such as the configuration of disorder or the propagating…

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

Controlling waves in complex media has become a major topic of interest, notably through the concepts of time reversal and wavefront shaping. Recently, it was shown that spatial light modulators can counter-intuitively focus waves both in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Philipp del Hougne , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Geoffroy Lerosey

When light travels through scattering media, speckles (spatially random distribution of fluctuated intensities) are formed due to the interference of light travelling along different optical paths, preventing the perception of structure,…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-15 Honglin Liu , Xin Wang , Puxiang Lai , Zhentao Liu , Jianhong Shi , Shensheng Han

The ability to steer light propagation inside scattering media has long been sought-after due to its potential widespread applications. To form optical foci inside scattering media, the only feasible strategy is to guide photons by using…

Optics · Physics 2014-04-30 Cheng Ma , Xiao Xu , Yan Liu , Lihong V. Wang

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,…

The memory effect in disordered systems is a key physical phenomenon that has been employed for optical imaging, metrology, and communication through opaque media. Under the conventional memory effect, when the incident beam is tilted…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-21 Hasan Yılmaz , Matthias Kühmayer , Chia Wei Hsu , Stefan Rotter , Hui Cao

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

Shaping light deep inside complex media, such as biological tissue, is critical to many research fields. Although the coherent control of scattered light via wavefront shaping has made significant advances in addressing this challenge,…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-21 YoonSeok Baek , Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan

The multiple scattering of coherent light is a problem of both fundamental and applied importance. In optics, phase conjugation allows spatial focussing and imaging through a multiply scattering medium; however, temporal control is…

The small correction volume for conventional wavefront shaping methods limits their applications in biological imaging through scattering media. We demonstrate large volume wavefront shaping through a scattering layer with a single…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Xiaodong Tao , Tuwin Lam , Bingzhao Zhu , Qinggele Li , Marc R. Reinig , Joel Kubby

Optical imaging through scattering media is a fundamental challenge in many applications. Recently, substantial breakthroughs such as imaging through biological tissues and looking around corners have been obtained by the use of…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-09 Tomer Yeminy , Ori Katz

Imaging through scattering and random media is an outstanding problem that to date has been tackled by either measuring the medium transmission matrix or exploiting linear correlations in the transmitted speckle patterns. However,…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-07 Ilya Starshynov , Alex Turpin , Philip Binner , Daniele Faccio

Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

The use of laser guide stars in astronomical adaptive optics results in elongated Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor image patterns. Image correlation techniques can be used to determine local wavefront slope by correlating each sub-aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Alastair Basden

Scattering prevents light from being focused in turbid media. The effect of scattering can be negated through wavefront shaping techniques when a localized form of feedback is available. Even in the absence of such a localized reporter,…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-01 Gerwin Osnabrugge , Lyubov V. Amitonova , Ivo M. Vellekoop

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

Optical memory effects are well-known types of amplitude-domain wave correlation enabling control over light scattered through diffusive materials or multimode fibers. In this letter, we report the phenomenon of random polarization memory…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Gauri Arora , Lyubov V. Amitonova