scholarly journals High-speed single-shot optical focusing through dynamic scattering media with full-phase wavefront shaping

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (22) ◽  
pp. 221109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashton S. Hemphill ◽  
Yuecheng Shen ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Lihong V. Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Optical Focusing ◽  
Dynamic Scattering

scholarly journals Focusing light into scattering media with ultrasound-induced field perturbation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongtao Cheng ◽  
Lihong V. Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Zeroth Order ◽  
Field Perturbation ◽  
Induced Field ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Flexible Mechanism ◽  
Optical Focusing

AbstractFocusing light into scattering media, although challenging, is highly desirable in many realms. With the invention of time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing, acousto-optic modulation was demonstrated as a promising guidestar mechanism for achieving noninvasive and addressable optical focusing into scattering media. Here, we report a new ultrasound-assisted technique, ultrasound-induced field perturbation optical focusing, abbreviated as UFP. Unlike in conventional TRUE optical focusing, where only the weak frequency-shifted first-order diffracted photons due to acousto-optic modulation are useful, here UFP leverages the brighter zeroth-order photons diffracted by an ultrasonic guidestar as information carriers to guide optical focusing. We find that the zeroth-order diffracted photons, although not frequency-shifted, do have a field perturbation caused by the existence of the ultrasonic guidestar. By detecting and time-reversing the differential field of the frequency-unshifted photons when the ultrasound is alternately ON and OFF, we can focus light to the position where the field perturbation occurs inside the scattering medium. We demonstrate here that UFP optical focusing has superior performance to conventional TRUE optical focusing, which benefits from the more intense zeroth-order photons. We further show that UFP optical focusing can be easily and flexibly developed into double-shot realization or even single-shot realization, which is desirable for high-speed wavefront shaping. This new method upsets conventional thinking on the utility of an ultrasonic guidestar and broadens the horizon of light control in scattering media. We hope that it provides a more efficient and flexible mechanism for implementing ultrasound-guided wavefront shaping.

scholarly journals Photoacoustically guided wavefront shaping for enhanced optical focusing in scattering media

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puxiang Lai ◽  
Lidai Wang ◽  
Jian Wei Tay ◽  
Lihong V. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Media ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Optical Focusing

scholarly journals Real-time frequency-encoded spatiotemporal focusing through scattering media using a programmable 2D ultrafine optical frequency comb

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. eaay1192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Wei ◽  
Yuecheng Shen ◽  
Joseph C. Jing ◽  
Ashton S. Hemphill ◽  
Changsheng Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Frequency Comb ◽  
Optical Frequency Comb ◽  
Optical Frequency ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Wave Source ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Temporal Focusing ◽  
Wavefront Shaping

Optical wavefront shaping is a powerful tool for controlling photons in strongly scattering media. Its speed, however, has been the bottleneck for in vivo applications. Moreover, unlike spatial focusing, temporal focusing from a continuous-wave source has rarely been exploited yet is highly desired for nonlinear photonics. Here, we present a novel real-time frequency-encoded spatiotemporal (FEST) focusing technology. FEST focusing uses a novel programmable two-dimensional optical frequency comb with an ultrafine linewidth to perform single-shot wavefront measurements, with a fast single-pixel detector. This technique enables simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing at microsecond scales through thick dynamic scattering media. This technology also enabled us to discover the large-scale temporal shift, a new phenomenon that, with the conventional spatial memory effect, establishes a space-time duality. FEST focusing opens a new avenue for high-speed wavefront shaping in the field of photonics.

scholarly journals Single-Shot Time-Reversed Optical Focusing into and through Scattering Media

ACS Photonics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 2871-2877
Author(s):  
Zhongtao Cheng ◽  
Jiamiao Yang ◽  
Lihong V. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Single Shot ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Optical Focusing

scholarly journals Time-reversed optical focusing through scattering media by digital full phase and amplitude recovery using a single phase-only SLM

2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 1550007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Yang ◽  
Xinzhu Sang ◽  
Daxiong Xu
Keyword(s):  
Single Phase ◽  
Scattered Light ◽  
Incident Light ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Ballistic Regime ◽  
Light Modulator ◽  
Speckle Field ◽  
Biomedical Optical Imaging ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Optical Focusing

Focusing light though scattering media beyond the ballistic regime is a challenging task in biomedical optical imaging. This challenge can be overcome by wavefront shaping technique, in which a time-reversed (TR) wavefront of scattered light is generated to suppress the scattering. In previous TR optical focusing experiments, a phase-only spatial light modulator (SLM) has been typically used to control the wavefront of incident light. Unfortunately, although the phase information is reconstructed by the phase-only SLM, the amplitude information is lost, resulting in decreased peak-to-background ratio (PBR) of optical focusing in the TR wavefront reconstruction. A new method of TR optical focusing through scattering media is proposed here, which numerically reconstructs the full phase and amplitude of a simulated scattered light field by using a single phase-only SLM. Simulation results and the proposed optical setup show that the time-reversal of a fully developed speckle field can be digitally implemented with both phase and amplitude recovery, affording a way to improve the performance of light focusing through scattering media.

scholarly journals Optical focusing in scattering media with photoacoustic wavefront shaping (PAWS)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puxiang Lai ◽  
Jian Wei Tay ◽  
Lidai Wang ◽  
Lihong V. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Scattering Media ◽  
Wavefront Shaping ◽  
Optical Focusing

scholarly journals Optical focusing deep inside dynamic scattering media with near-infrared time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) light

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Liu ◽  
Puxiang Lai ◽  
Cheng Ma ◽  
Xiao Xu ◽  
Alexander A. Grabar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Scattering Media ◽  
Optical Focusing ◽  
Dynamic Scattering
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