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 …

Transverse Anderson localization of light: a tutorial

A Mafi - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2015 - opg.optica.org
This tutorial gives an overview of the transverse Anderson localization of light in one and two
transverse dimensions. A pedagogical approach is followed throughout the presentation …

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 …

Image transport through a disordered optical fibre mediated by transverse Anderson localization

S Karbasi, RJ Frazier, KW Koch, T Hawkins… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Transverse Anderson localization of light allows localized optical-beam-transport through a
transversely disordered and longitudinally invariant medium. Its successful implementation …

Disorder-induced single-mode transmission

G Ruocco, B Abaie, W Schirmacher, A Mafi… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Localized states trap waves propagating in a disordered potential and play a crucial role in
Anderson localization, which is the absence of diffusion due to disorder. Some localized …

WaveFlex sensor: Advancing wearable cardiorespiratory monitoring with flexible wave-shaped polymer optical fiber

L Shen, Z Wang, K Xiao, C Teng… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we propose a wearable cardiorespiratory monitoring sensor, the WaveFlex
sensor, which incorporates a flexible wave-shaped polymer optical fiber. The stretchable …

Review of a Decade of research on disordered Anderson localizing optical fibers

A Mafi, J Ballato - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nearly a decade ago, transverse Anderson localization was observed for the first time in an
optical fiber with a random transverse refractive index profile. This started the development …

Unsupervised full-color cellular image reconstruction through disordered optical fiber

X Hu, J Zhao, JE Antonio-Lopez, RA Correa… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent years have witnessed the tremendous development of fusing fiber-optic imaging with
supervised deep learning to enable high-quality imaging of hard-to-reach areas …

Disordered Anderson localization optical fibers for image transport—a review

A Mafi, J Ballato, KW Koch… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disordered optical fibers show novel waveguiding properties, enabled by the transverse
Anderson localization of light, and are used for image transport. The strong transverse …

[HTML][HTML] Deep-learning cell imaging through Anderson localizing optical fiber

J Zhao, Y Sun, H Zhu, Z Zhu… - Advanced …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We demonstrate a deep-learning-based fiber imaging system that can transfer real-time
artifact-free cell images through a meter-long Anderson localizing optical fiber. The cell …