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A simple imaging system together with complex semidefinite programming is used to generate the transmission matrix of a multimode fiber. Once the transmission matrix is acquired, we can modulate the phase of the input signal to induce…

In today's information age, advanced fiber optic transmission technology is of paramount importance. Multimode fibers (MMFs) using space-division multiplexing (SDM) are promising for improved transmission capacity, connection flexibility,…

The ability to form images through hair-thin optical fibres promises to open up new applications from biomedical imaging to industrial inspection. Unfortunately, deployment has been limited because small changes in mechanical deformation…

Optical metasurfaces are conventionally viewed as organized flat arrays of photonic or plasmonic nanoresonators, also called metaatoms. These metasurfaces are typically highly ordered and fabricated with precision using expensive tools.…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-26 P. Lalanne , M Chen , C. Rockstuhl , A. Sprafke , A. Dmitriev , K. Vynck

Retinal diseases can cause irreversible vision loss in both eyes if not diagnosed and treated early. Since retinal diseases are so complicated, retinal imaging is likely to show two or more abnormalities. Current deep learning techniques…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Tariq M Khan , Shahzaib Iqbal , Syed S. Naqvi , Imran Razzak , Erik Meijering

For the past forty years, optical fibres have found widespread use in ground-based and space-based instruments. In most applications, these fibres are used in conjunction with conventional optics to transport light. But photonics offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Seong-Sik Min , Emma Lindley , Sergio Leon-Saval , Simon Ellis , John Lawrence , Martin Roth , Hans-Gerd Lohmannsroben , Sylvain Veilleux

The capacity of information delivered by single photons is boosted by encoding high-dimensional quantum dits in their transverse shape. Transporting such high-dimensional quantum dits in optical networks may be accomplished using multimode…

Optical fibres are the primary medium for optical signal transmission, and their guided modes provide a high-dimensional basis for modal-domain information encoding. However, conventional demultiplexing approaches typically convert fibre…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Rundong Fan , Yamin Zheng , Pei Li , Xixiao Cao , Haoyang Wu , Zheng Cai , Lei Huang

Recently, complex wavefront engineering with disordered media has demonstrated optical manipulation capabilities beyond those of conventional optics. These capabilities include extended volume, aberration-free focusing and subwavelength…

Multi-mode fibers provide an increased amount of data transfer rates given a large number of transmission modes. Unfortunately, the increased number of modes in a multi-mode fiber hinders the accurate transfer of information due to…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-16 Alim Yolalmaz , Emre Yüce

We consider large-mode area photonic crystal fibers for visible applications where micro-deformation induced attenuation becomes a potential problem when the effective area A_eff is sufficiently large compared to lambda^2. We argue how a…

Optics · Physics 2007-09-05 M. D. Nielsen , N. A. Mortensen , J. R. Folkenberg

Acquiring high-contrast optical images deep inside biological tissues is still a challenging problem. Confocal microscopy is an important tool for biomedical imaging since it improves image quality by rejecting background signals. However,…

This work demonstrates a computational method for predicting the light propagation through a single multimode fiber using a deep neural network. The experiment for gathering training and testing data is performed with a digital micro-mirror…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-10 Pengfei Fan , Liang Deng , Lei Su

Artificial intelligence has emerged as promising tool to decode a phase image transmitted through a multimode fiber (MMF) by applying deep learning techniques. By transmitting tens of thousands of images through the MMF, deep neural…

On-chip optical interconnect has been widely accepted as a promising technology to realize future large-scale multiprocessors. Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) provides a new degree of freedom for optical interconnects to dramatically…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-07 Chunlei Sun , Yunhong Ding , Zhen Li , Wei Qi , Yu Yu , Xinliang Zhang

We study the spatially incoherent light generated by a multimode fiber(MMF) in the application of image projection designed for the ultracold-atom experiments. Inspired by previous half-analytic methods concerning the incoherent light, here…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ken Deng , Zhongchi Zhang , Huaichuan Wang , Zihan Zhao , Jiazhong Hu

The use of individual multimode optical fibers in endoscopy applications has the potential to provide highly miniaturized and noninvasive probes for microscopy and optical micromanipulation. A few different strategies have been proposed…

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

Multi-mode fibers (MMFs) and single-mode fibers (SMFs) are widely used in optical communication networks. MMFs are the practical choice in terms of cost in applications that require short distances. Beyond that, SMFs are necessary because…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 Oussama Korichi , Markus Hiekkamäki , Robert Fickler

Nanostructured materials have recently emerged as a promising approach for material appearance design. Research has mainly focused on creating structural colours by wave interference, leaving aside other important aspects that constitute…