Focusing coherent light through opaque strongly scattering media

doi:10.1364/OL.32.002309

Focusing coherent light through opaque strongly scattering media

I. M. Vellekoop and A. P. Mosk »View Author Affiliations

Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 16, pp. 2309-2311 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.32.002309

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Abstract

We report focusing of coherent light through opaque scattering materials by control of the incident wavefront. The multiply scattered light forms a focus with a brightness that is up to a factor of 1000 higher than the brightness of the normal diffuse transmission.

OCIS Codes
(030.6600) Coherence and statistical optics : Statistical optics
(290.1990) Scattering : Diffusion
(290.4210) Scattering : Multiple scattering

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Scattering

History
Original Manuscript: March 6, 2007
Revised Manuscript: June 14, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: June 21, 2007
Published: August 2, 2007

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Vol. 2, Iss. 9 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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I. M. Vellekoop and A. P. Mosk, "Focusing coherent light through opaque strongly scattering media," Opt. Lett. 32, 2309-2311 (2007)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-32-16-2309

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Appl. Phys. B: Lasers Opt.

M. Hacker, G. Stobrawa, R. Sauerbrey, T. Buckup, M. Motzkus, M. Wildenhain, and A. Gehner, Appl. Phys. B: Lasers Opt. 76, 711 (2003).

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[1] P.Sebbah, ed., Waves and Imaging through Complex Media (Kluwer, 2001).

[2] R. K. Tyson, Principles of Adaptive Optics (Academic, 1998).

[3] A. Derode, A. Tourin, J. de Rosny, M. Tanter, S. Yon, and M. Fink, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 014301 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[4] S. H. Simon, A. L. Moustakas, M. Stoytchev, and H. Safar, Phys. Today 54(9), 38 (2001). [CrossRef]

[5] G. Lerosey, J. de Rosny, A. Tourin, and M. Fink, Science 315, 1120 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[6] R. H. J. Kop, P. de Vries, R. Sprik, and A. Lagendijk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4369 (1997). [CrossRef]

[7] R. Pappu, B. Recht, J. Taylor, and N. Gershenfeld, Science 297, 2026 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[8] J. W. Goodman, Statistical Optics (Wiley, 2000).

[9] D. E. Goldberg, Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning (Addison-Wesley, 1989).

[10] N. Garcia and A. Z. Genack, Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 1678 (1989). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[11] C. W. J. Beenakker, Rev. Mod. Phys. 69, 731 (1997). [CrossRef]

[12] J. B. Pendry, A. MacKinnon, and P. J. Roberts, Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A 437, 67 (1990).

[13] M. I. Stockman, S. V. Faleev, and D. J. Bergman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 067402 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[14] B. J. Vakoc, S. H. Yun, J. F. de Boer, G. J. Tearney, and B. E. Bouma, Opt. Express 13, 5483 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

[15] J. Li, G. Dietsche, D. Iftime, S. E. Skipetrov, G. Maret, T. Elbert, B. Rockstroh, and T. Gisler, J. Biomed. Opt. 10, 044002 (2005). [CrossRef]

[16] M. Hacker, G. Stobrawa, R. Sauerbrey, T. Buckup, M. Motzkus, M. Wildenhain, and A. Gehner, Appl. Phys. B: Lasers Opt. 76, 711 (2003).

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