Shaping the propagation of light in complex media

H Cao, AP Mosk, S Rotter - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The main obstacle for optical imaging or for sending information through turbid media such
as paint, clouds and biological tissue is the random scattering of light. Owing to its immense …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Spatiotemporal control of light transmission through a multimode fiber with strong mode coupling

W Xiong, P Ambichl, Y Bromberg, B Redding, S Rotter… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We experimentally generate and characterize eigenstates of the Wigner-Smith time-delay
matrix, called principal modes, in a multimode fiber with strong mode coupling. The unique …

Principal modes in multimode fibers: exploring the crossover from weak to strong mode coupling

W Xiong, P Ambichl, Y Bromberg, B Redding… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present experimental and numerical studies on principal modes in a multimode fiber
with mode coupling. By applying external stress to the fiber and gradually adjusting the …

Pseudounitary Floquet scattering matrix for wave-front shaping in time-periodic photonic media

D Globosits, J Hüpfl, S Rotter - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The physics of waves in time-varying media provides numerous opportunities for wave
control that are unattainable with static media. In particular, Floquet systems with a periodic …

Long-range spatio-temporal correlations in multimode fibers for pulse delivery

W Xiong, CW Hsu, H Cao - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Long-range correlations play an essential role in wave transport through disordered media,
but have rarely been studied in other complex systems. Here we discover spatio-temporal …

Temporal recompression through a scattering medium via a broadband transmission matrix

M Mounaix, HB de Aguiar, S Gigan - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Coherent control of photocurrent in a strongly scattering photoelectrochemical system

SF Liew, SM Popoff, SW Sheehan, A Goetschy… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A fundamental issue that limits the efficiency of many photoelectrochemical systems is that
the photon absorption length is typically much longer than the electron diffusion length …

Large-FOV scattering-assisted holographic projection by enhanced sampling of transmission matrix

P Yu, Y Liu, Y Wu, J Zhuang, Z Wang, Y Li… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Based on wavefront shaping, scattering materials provide a unique tool to break the trade-off
between the viewing angle and field of view (FOV) for three-dimensional holographic …

Focusing and energy deposition inside random media

X Cheng, AZ Genack - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
The degree of control over waves transmitted through random media is determined by
characteristics of the singular values of the transmission matrix. This Letter explores focusing …