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The newly emerging field of wave front shaping in complex media has recently seen enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental accessibility of the information stored in the scattering matrix of a…

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The increasing complexity of neural networks and the energy consumption associated with training and inference create a need for alternative neuromorphic approaches, e.g. using optics. Current proposals and implementations rely on physical…

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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…

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Imaging at depth in opaque materials has long been a challenge. Recently, wavefront shaping has enabled significant advance for deep imaging. Nevertheless, most non-invasive wavefront shaping methods require cameras, lack the sensitivity…

Multi-plane light conversion allows to perform arbitrary transformations on a finite set of spatial modes with no theoretical restriction to the quality of the transformation. Even though the number of shaped modes is in general small, the…

Imaging through scattering is an important, yet challenging problem. Tremendous progress has been made by exploiting the deterministic input-output "transmission matrix" for a fixed medium. However, this "one-to-one" mapping is highly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-27 Yunzhe Li , Yujia Xue , Lei Tian

The non-interference three-dimensional refractive index(RI) tomography has attracted extensive attention in the life science field for its simple system implementation and robust imaging performance. However, the complexity inherent in the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-13 Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

We propose and demonstrate a new imaging technique to noninvasively see through scattering layers with the aid of a spatial light modulator (SLM). A relay system projects the incoherent light pattern emitting from the scattering layer onto…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Saswata Mukherjee , A. Vijayakumar , Joseph Rosen

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…

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Dynamic scattering remains a significant challenge to the practical deployment of anti-scattering imaging. Existing methods, such as transmission matrix measurements, iterative wavefront shaping, and optical phase conjugation, depend on a…

In this work we demonstrate the efficacy of neural networks in the characterization of dispersive media. We also develop a neural network to make predictions for input probe pulses which propagate through a nonlinear dispersive medium,…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-02 Sanjaya Lohani , Erin M. Knutson , Wenlei Zhang , Ryan T. Glasser

In this work, a pattern recognition system is investigated for blind automatic classification of digitally modulated communication signals. The proposed technique is able to discriminate the type of modulation scheme which is eventually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Harishchandra Dubey , Nandita , Ashutosh Kumar Tiwari

Multi-plane light converter (MPLC) designs supporting hundreds of modes are attractive in high-throughput optical communications. These photonic structures typically comprise >10 phase masks in free space, with millions of independent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Zheyuan Zhu , Joe H. Doerr , Guifang Li , Shuo Pang

In this paper, the advancements in structured light beams recognition using speckle-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been presented. Speckle fields, generated by the interference of multiple wavefronts diffracted and…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-02 Venugopal Raskatla , Purnesh Singh Badavath , Vijay Kumar

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

Heterogeneous materials such as biological tissue scatter light in random, yet deterministic, ways. Wavefront shaping can reverse the effects of scattering to enable deep-tissue microscopy. Such methods require either invasive access to the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Laurynas Valantinas , Tom Vettenburg

A transfer matrix method is developed for optical calculations of non-interacting graphene layers. Within the framework of this method, optical properties such as reflection, transmission and absorption for single-, double- and multi-layer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-10 Tianrong Zhan , Xi Shi , Yunyun Dai , Xiaohan Liu , Jian Zi

Recently deep neural networks (DNNs) have been successfully introduced to the field of lensless imaging through scattering media. By solving an inverse problem in computational imaging, DNNs can overcome several shortcomings in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-01 Yukuan Yang , Lei Deng , Peng Jiao , Yansong Chua , Jing Pei , Cheng Ma , Guoqi Li

We report a method to design at will the spatial profile of transmitted coherent light after propagation through a scattering sample. We compute an operator based on the experimentally measured transmission matrix, obtained by numerically…

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…