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Wavefront shaping enables precise control of light propagation through multimode fibers (MMFs), facilitating diffraction-limited focusing for applications such as high-resolution single-fiber imaging and high-power fiber amplifiers. While…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-06 Amna Ammar , Sarp Feykun Şener , Mert Ercan , Hasan Yılmaz

Wavefront shaping is a technique to study and control light transport inside scattering media. Wavefront shaping is considered to be applicable to any complex material, yet in most previous studies, the only sample geometries that are…

Wavefront shaping is a technique for directing light through turbid media. The theoretical aspects of wavefront shaping are well understood, and under near-ideal experimental conditions, accurate predictions for the expected signal…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-01 Bahareh Mastiani , Daniël W. S. Cox , Ivo M. Vellekoop

Achieving precise control of light intensity in 3D volumes is highly in demand in many applications in optics. Various wavefront shaping techniques have been utilized to reconstruct a target amplitude profile within a 3D space. However,…

Wavefront-shaping is a promising approach for imaging fluorescent targets deep inside scattering tissue despite strong aberrations. It enables focusing an incoming illumination into a single spot inside tissue, as well as correcting the…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-23 Dror Aizik , Anat Levin

Optical approaches for wavefront shaping traditionally rely on phase modulation through holographic techniques. Shaping the phase determines a wave's diffraction and hence its intensity distribution in space. We instead show that shaping…

Advances of quantum control technology have led to nearly perfect single-qubit control of nuclear spins and atomic hyperfine ground states. In contrast, quantum control of strong optical transitions, even for free atoms, are far from being…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yudi Ma , Xing Huang , Xiaoqing Wang , Lingjing Ji , Yizun He , Liyang Qiu , Jian Zhao , Yuzhuo Wang , Saijun Wu

Commonly used wavefront sensors, the Shack Hartmann wavefront sensor and the pyramid wavefront sensor, for example, have large dynamic range or high sensitivity, trading one regime for the other. A new type of wavefront sensor is being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-19 Meghan Farris O'Brien , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Joseph D. Long , Lauren Schatz , Jared R. Males , Kyle Van Gorkom , Alex Rodack

We present a 48-element programmable phase plate for coherent electron waves produced by a combination of photolithography and focused ion beam. This brings the highly successful concept of wavefront shaping from light optics into the realm…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-06 Chu-Ping Yu , Francisco Vega Ibáñez , Armand Béché , Johan Verbeeck

From the earth's crust to the human brain, remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in a diverse range of diffusive media. Separating the source and detector increases the penetration depth of remitted light, yet rapidly decreases…

Wavefront shaping systems aim to image deep into scattering tissue by reshaping incoming and outgoing light to correct aberrations caused by tissue inhomogeneity However, the desired modulation depends on the unknown tissue structure and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sagi Monin , Marina Alterman , Anat Levin

The ability to perform high-precision optical measurements is paramount to science and engineering. Laser interferometry enables interaction-free sensing with a precision ultimately limited by shot noise. Quantum optical sensors can surpass…

Wavefront shaping is increasingly being used in modern microscopy to obtain distortion-free, high-resolution images deep inside inhomogeneous media. Wavefront shaping methods typically rely on the presence of a 'guidestar' in order to find…

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

Over the past fifty years, wavefront sensing technology has continuously evolved from basic techniques to high-precision systems, serving as a core methodology in adaptive optics (AO). Beyond traditional wavefront retrieval methods based on…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Rundong Fan , Zichao Wang , Pei Li , Lei Huang

We present a new approach for spatiotemporal focusing through complex scattering media by wave front shaping. Using a nonlinear feedback signal to shape the incident pulsed wave front, we show that the limit of a spatiotemporal matched…

Imaging techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) achieve deep, non-invasive sensing in turbid media, but they are constrained by the photon budget. Wavefront shaping (WFS) can…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Pablo Jara , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , Alexey Yamilov

Over the past decade, optical wavefront shaping has been developed to focus light through highly opaque scattering layers, opening new possibilities for biomedical applications. To probe light intensity deep inside soft scattering media…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-25 Fei Xia , Ivo Leite , Robert Prevedel , Thomas Chaigne

The use of Wavefront Sensors (WFS) is nowadays fundamental in the field of instrumental optics. This paper discusses the principle of an original and recently proposed new class of WFS. Their principle consists in evaluating the slopes of…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-23 Francois Henault

We investigate the improvements in Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor image processing that can be realised using total variation minimisation techniques to remove noise from these images. We perform Monte-Carlo simulation to demonstrate that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Alastair Basden