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 …

Controlling light propagation in multimode fibers for imaging, spectroscopy, and beyond

H Cao, T Čižmár, S Turtaev, T Tyc… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time,
frequency, and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly …

Time-of-flight 3D imaging through multimode optical fibers

D Stellinga, DB Phillips, SP Mekhail, A Selyem… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Time-of-flight three-dimensional (3D) imaging has applications that range from industrial
inspection to motion tracking. Depth is recovered by measuring the round-trip flight time of …

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 …

Multimode optical fiber transmission with a deep learning network

B Rahmani, D Loterie, G Konstantinou… - Light: science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Multimode fibers (MMFs) are an example of a highly scattering medium, which scramble the
coherent light propagating within them to produce seemingly random patterns. Thus, for …

Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres

K Krupa, A Tonello, BM Shalaby, M Fabert… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Multimode optical fibres are enjoying renewed attention, boosted by the urgent need to
overcome the current capacity crunch of single-mode fibre (SMF) systems and by recent …

Seeing through chaos in multimode fibres

M Plöschner, T Tyc, T Čižmár - Nature photonics, 2015 - nature.com
In a similar fashion to diffusers or other highly scattering media, multimode fibres deliver
coherent light signals in the form of apparently random speckled patterns. In contrast to other …

High-fidelity multimode fibre-based endoscopy for deep brain in vivo imaging

S Turtaev, IT Leite, T Altwegg-Boussac… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
Progress in neuroscience relies on new techniques for investigating the complex dynamics
of neuronal networks. An ongoing challenge is to achieve minimally invasive and high …

Feedback-based wavefront shaping

IM Vellekoop - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Light scattering was thought to be the fundamental limitation for the depth at which optical
imaging methods can retain their resolution and sensitivity. However, it was shown that light …

Scanner-free and wide-field endoscopic imaging by using a single multimode optical fiber

Y Choi, C Yoon, M Kim, TD Yang, C Fang-Yen… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
A single multimode fiber is considered an ideal optical element for endoscopic imaging due
to the possibility of direct image transmission via multiple spatial modes. However, the wave …