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 …

Controlling waves in space and time for imaging and focusing in complex media

AP Mosk, A Lagendijk, G Lerosey, M Fink - Nature photonics, 2012 - nature.com
In complex media such as white paint and biological tissue, light encounters nanoscale
refractive-index inhomogeneities that cause multiple scattering. Such scattering is usually …

Correlation-enhanced control of wave focusing in disordered media

CW Hsu, SF Liew, A Goetschy, H Cao… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge in physics is controlling the propagation of waves in disordered
media despite strong scattering from inhomogeneities. Spatial light modulators enable one …

Physical unclonable function based on a multi-mode optical waveguide

C Mesaritakis, M Akriotou, A Kapsalis, E Grivas… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Physical unclonable functions are the physical equivalent of one-way mathematical
transformations that, upon external excitation, can generate irreversible responses …

Highly parallel, interferometric diffusing wave spectroscopy for monitoring cerebral blood flow dynamics

W Zhou, O Kholiqov, SP Chong, VJ Srinivasan - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Light-scattering methods are widely used in soft matter physics and biomedical optics to
probe dynamics in turbid media, such as diffusion in colloids or blood flow in biological …

Universal structure of transmission eigenchannels inside opaque media

M Davy, Z Shi, J Park, C Tian, AZ Genack - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
As the desire to explore opaque materials is ordinarily frustrated by multiple scattering of
waves, attention has focused on the transmission matrix of the wave field. This matrix gives …

Temporal light control in complex media through the singular-value decomposition of the time-gated transmission matrix

L Devaud, B Rauer, M Kühmayer, J Melchard… - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The complex temporal behavior of an ultrashort pulse of light propagating through a multiple
scattering medium can be characterized experimentally through a time-gated transmission …

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 …

Optimal multiplexing of spatially encoded information across custom-tailored configurations of a metasurface-tunable chaotic cavity

P del Hougne, M Davy, U Kuhl - Physical review applied, 2020 - APS
Tunable disorder-engineered materials offer the opportunity to add functionalities for finely
tailored dynamic wave control to applications inevitably or voluntarily based on random …