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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

Wavefront shaping makes it possible to form a focus through opaque scattering materials. In some cases, this focus may be scanned over a small distance using the optical memory effect. However, in many cases of interest, the optical memory…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Bahareh Mastiani , Tzu-Lun Ohn , Ivo M. Vellekoop

We describe the {theory of focusing waves} to a predefined spatial point {inside} a disordered {three-dimensional medium} by the external shaping of {$N$} different field sources outside the medium, {also known as wavefront shaping}. We…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-06 B. A. van Tiggelen , A. Lagendijk , Willem L. Vos

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…

Optical imaging through scattering media is an important challenge in a variety of fields ranging from microscopy to autonomous vehicles. While advanced wavefront shaping techniques have offered significant breakthroughs in the past decade,…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-23 Omri Haim , Jeremy Boger-Lombard , Ori Katz

Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

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…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-06 Stefan Rotter , Sylvain Gigan

Controlling the propagation and interaction of light in complex media has sparked major interest in the last few years. Unfortunately, spatial light modulation devices suffer from limited speed that precludes real-time applications such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Omer Tzang , Eyal Niv , Sakshi Singh , Simon Labouesse , Greg Myatt , Rafael Piestun

Wavefront shaping enables control of classical light through scattering media. Extending these techniques to spatially entangled photons promises new quantum applications, but their fundamental limits, especially when both photons scatter,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Ronen Shekel , Sébastien M. Popoff , Yaron Bromberg

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

Manipulating the propagation of light through scattering media remains a major challenge for many applications, including astronomy, biomedical imaging and colloidal optics. Wavefront shaping is one of the most promising ways to mitigate…

In wavefront shaping, waves are focused through complex media onto one or more target points, and the resulting intensity enhancement is quantified by the enhancement factor. While reproducible enhancement is crucial in experiments, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-26 Grégory Schehr , Hasan Yılmaz

As the electromagnetic spectrum becomes more congested and the environments in which we need to operate become more complicated, control over the environment itself becomes necessary to ensure the integrity of wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Benjamin W. Frazier , Steven M. Anlage

Wavefront shaping can tailor multipath interference to control multiple scattering of waves in complex optical systems. However, full-wave simulations that capture multiple scattering are computationally demanding given the large system…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-14 Ho-Chun Lin , Zeyu Wang , Chia Wei Hsu

We introduce wavefront shaping as a tool for optimizing the sensitivity in nano-optomechanical measurement schemes. We perform multimode output analysis of an optomechanical system consisting of a focused laser beam coupled to the…

Wavefront shaping techniques allow waves to be focused on a diffraction-limited target deep inside disordered media. To identify the target position, a guidestar is required that typically emits a frequency-shifted signal. Here we present a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Antton Goïcoechea , Jakob Hüpfl , Stefan Rotter , François Sarrazin , Matthieu Davy

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,…

Non-invasive optical focusing inside scattering media is still a big challenge because inhomogeneous media scatter both incoming photons for focusing and outgoing photons for observation. Various approaches, utilizing non-linear…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-17 Dayan Li , Sujit Kumar Sahoo , Huy Quoc Lam , Dong Wang , Cuong Dang

Getting to grips with the detrimental influence of disordered environments on wave propagation is an interdisciplinary endeavour spanning diverse research areas ranging from telecommunications \cite{basar_wireless_2019} and bio-medical…