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Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time, frequency and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly developed techniques of spatial wavefront shaping turn out to be highly…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Hui Cao , Tomáš Čižmár , Sergey Turtaev , Tomáš Tyc , Stefan Rotter

We introduce and validate a theoretical framework for coherent control of multichannel scattering of linear waves to route waves through complex geometries with multiple scattering. We show that steady-state perfect routing solutions are…

Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…

Microscopy and optical imaging are drastically limited by the inhomogeneities encountered by the light while propagating from the object of interest to the detection system. In this context, adaptive optics and wavefront manipulation are…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-23 Diego Di Battista

Accurately controlling the quantum coherence of photons is pivotal for their applications in quantum sensing and quantum imaging. Here, we propose the utilization of quantum entanglement and local phase manipulation techniques to control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Dianzhen Cui , Xi-Lin Wang , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

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

We provide an introduction to complex photonic media, that is, composite materials with spatial inhomogeneities that are distributed over length scales comparable to or smaller than the wavelength of light. This blossoming field is firmly…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-28 Willem L. Vos , Ad Lagendijk , Allard P. Mosk

In the age of information explosion, the conventional optical communication protocols are rapidly reaching the limits of their capacity, as almost all available degrees of freedom (e.g., wavelength, polarization) for division multiplexing…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 Xin Liu , Sergey A. Ponomarenko , Fei Wang , Yangjian Cai , Chunhao Liang

Collective coherent scattering of laser light by an ensemble of polarizable point particles creates long range interactions, whose properties can be tailored by choice of injected laser powers, frequencies and polarizations. We use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan Ostermann , Matthias Sonnleitner , Helmut Ritsch

Three-dimensional (3D) high-resolution imaging is essential in microscopy, yet light scattering poses significant challenges in achieving it. Here, we present an approach to holographic imaging of spatially incoherent objects through…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-04 YoonSeok Baek , Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan

We propose and demonstrate a novel method for generating propagation-invariant spatially-stationary fields in a controllable manner. Our method relies on producing incoherent mixtures of plane waves using planar primary sources that are…

In absence of a lens to form an image, incoherent or partially coherent light scattering off an obstructive or reflective object forms a broad intensity distribution in the far field with only feeble spatial features. We show here that…

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

In biological microscopy, light scattering represents the main limitation to image at depth. Recently, a set of wavefront shaping techniques has been developed in order to manipulate coherent light in strongly disordered materials. The…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-07 Antoine Boniface , Jonathan Dong , Sylvain Gigan

Scattering-assisted synthesis of broadband optical pulses is recognized to have a cross-disciplinary funda-mental and application importance. Achieving full-waveform synthesis generally requires means for assessing the instantaneous…

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

We compare two different models of transport of light in a disordered system with a spherical Gaussian distribution of scatterers. A coupled dipole model, keeping into account all interference effects, is compared to an incoherent model,…

Light shaping facilitates the preparation and detection of optical states and underlies many applications in communications, computing, and imaging. In this Letter, we generalize light shaping to the quantum domain. We show that patterns of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-27 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W. Fleischer

We present a method to measure the spectrally-resolved transmission matrix of a multiply scattering medium, thus allowing for the deterministic spatiospectral control of a broadband light source by means of wavefront shaping. As a…

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…