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 …

Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
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 …

Robust reconfigurable electromagnetic pathways within a photonic topological insulator

X Cheng, C Jouvaud, X Ni, SH Mousavi, AZ Genack… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The discovery of topological photonic states has revolutionized our understanding of
electromagnetic propagation and scattering. Endowed with topological robustness, photonic …

Anti-reflection structure for perfect transmission through complex media

M Horodynski, M Kühmayer, C Ferise, S Rotter, M Davy - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The scattering of waves when they propagate through disordered media is an important
limitation for a range of applications, including telecommunications, biomedical imaging …

Deeply subwavelength localization with reverberation-coded aperture

M Del Hougne, S Gigan, P Del Hougne - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Accessing subwavelength information about a scene from the far-field without invasive near-
field manipulations is a fundamental challenge in wave engineering. Yet it is well …

A pearl spectrometer

Y Kwak, SM Park, Z Ku, A Urbas, YL Kim - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Information recovery from incomplete measurements, typically performed by a numerical
means, is beneficial in a variety of classical and quantum signal processing. Random and …

Unitary control of partially coherent waves. II. Transmission or reflection

C Guo, S Fan - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Coherent control of wave transmission and reflection is crucial for applications in
communication, imaging, and sensing. However, many practical scenarios involve partially …

Optimal wave fields for micromanipulation in complex scattering environments

M Horodynski, M Kühmayer, A Brandstötter… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The manipulation of small objects with light has become an indispensable tool in many
areas of research, ranging from physics to biology and medicine,,,,,–. Here, we demonstrate …

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 …

Velocities of transmission eigenchannels and diffusion

AZ Genack, Y Huang, A Maor, Z Shi - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The diffusion model is used to calculate both the time-averaged flow of particles in stochastic
media and the propagation of waves averaged over ensembles of disordered static …