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Symmetry strongly impacts wave transport in complex media. In this Letter, we demonstrate that the phenomenon of symmetry-induced through-barrier transmission enhancement enables quantitative sensing across barriers in complex media. We…

Imaging systems operating in the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum are in great demand because of the distinct characteristics of terahertz waves in penetrating many optically-opaque materials and providing unique spectral…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-09 Xurong Li , Deniz Mengu , Aydogan Ozcan , Mona Jarrahi

Non-invasive and single-shot holographic imaging through complex media is technically challenging due to random light scattering which significantly scrambles optical information. Recently, several methods have been presented to address…

The field of biomedical imaging has undergone a rapid growth in recent years, mostly due to the implementation of ad-hoc designed experimental setups, theoretical support methods and numerical reconstructions. Especially for biological…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Daniele Ancora

Inspired by the extensive application of terahertz imaging technologies in the field of aerospace, we exploit a terahertz frequency modulated continuous wave imaging method with continuous wavelet transform algorithm to detect a multilayer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Yu Zhou

The transmission matrix is a unique tool to control light through a scattering medium. A monochromatic transmission matrix does not allow temporal control of broadband light. Conversely, measuring multiple transmission matrices with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-16 Mickael Mounaix , Hilton B. de Aguiar , Sylvain Gigan

Recently, computational sampling methods have been implemented to spatially characterize terahertz (THz) fields. Previous methods usually rely on either specialized THz devices such as THz spatial light modulators, or complicated systems…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jiapeng Zhao , Yiwen E , Kaia Williams , Xi-cheng Zhang , Robert Boyd

The electromagnetic spectrum in the terahertz frequency region is of significant importance for understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies and stars throughout the history of the universe and the process of planet formation.…

We utilize the photoexcitation of a semiconductor material as a 'reflectivity switch' for a broadband terahertz field. We show that judicious use of this switch enables temporal characterization of the THz field with spatial resolution…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-23 Daniel Krotkov , Eli Flaxer , Sharly Fleischer

Terahertz (THz) Time domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is a broadband spectroscopic technique spreading its uses in multiple fields: in science from material science to biology, in industry where it measures the thickness of a paint layer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Sophie Eliet , Arnaud Cuisset , Francis Hindle , Jean-François Lampin , Romain Peretti

We derive analytical expressions to describe how light is frequency-shifted when interacting with ultrasound within scattering media, due to the modulation of the refractive index induced by the ultrasound pressure waves. The model is…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-16 Adam Kinos

In view of recently demonstrated joint use of novel Fourier-transform techniques and effective high-accuracy frequency domain solvers related to the Method of Moments, it is argued that a set of transformative innovations could be developed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Thomas G. Anderson , Mark Lyon , Tao Yin , Oscar P. Bruno

The presence of a scattering medium in the imaging path between an object and an observer is known to severely limit the visual acuity of the imaging system. We present an approach to circumvent the deleterious effects of scattering, by…

Light-matter interactions are key in providing fundamental information about materials. Even in the linear-response regime, the spectroscopic response of a material encodes in it many properties of the ground state as well as of its…

Multiple light scattering hampers imaging objects in complex scattering media. Approaches used in real practices mainly aim to filter out multiple scattering obscuring the ballistic waves that travel straight through the scattering medium.…

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

We report experimental results where a momentum entangled biphoton state with a giant dimensionality of 8000 is retrieved and manipulated when only one photon of the pair is transmitted through a thin scattering medium. For this purpose,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Fabrice Devaux , Alexis Mosset , Sébastien M. Popoff , Eric Lantz

The invisibility cloak has been a long-standing dream for many researchers over the decades. The introduction of transformational optics has revitalized this field by providing a general method to design material distributions to hide the…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-03 Fan Zhou , Yongjun Bao , Wei Cao , Colin T. Stuart , Jianqiang Gu , Weili Zhang , Cheng Sun

The terahertz spectral regime, ranging from about 0.1 to 15 THz, is one of the least explored yet most technologically transformative spectral regions. One current challenge is to develop efficient and compact terahertz emitters/detectors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Liang Luo , Ioannis Chatzakis , Jigang Wang , Fabian B. P. Niesler , Martin Wegener , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) has become a powerful tool for investigating the optical properties of thin films, offering direct access to the complex permittivity in the terahertz range. However, in transmission-based…