Acoustical imaging through a multiple scattering medium using a time-reversal mirror

Acoustical imaging is based on the ability to focus an acoustic beam inside the zone of interest. This remains an issue through a high-order multiple scattering medium because the electronic delay lines that enable one to focus through a multiple scattering medium are a priori unknown. Using time-reversal principles, we show that images can be obtained through a very disordered medium. Surprisingly, the images are better than those obtained in a homogeneous medium with a classical imaging device.     

Lensless ghost imaging through the strongly scattering medium

Lensless ghost imaging has attracted much interest in recent years due to its profound physics and potential applications. In this paper we report studies of the robust properties of the lensless ghost imaging system with a pseudo-thermal light source in a strongly scattering medium. The effects of the positions of the strong medium on the ghost imaging are investigated. In the lensless ghost imaging system, a pseudo-thermal light is split into two correlated beams by a beam splitter. One beam goes to a charge-coupled detector camera, labeled as CCD2. The other beam goes to an object and then is collected in another charge-coupled detector camera, labeled as CCD1, which serves as a bucket detector. When the strong medium, a pane of ground glass disk, is placed between the object and CCD1, the bucket detector, the quality of ghost imaging is barely affected and a good image could still be obtained. The quality of the ghost imaging can also be maintained, even when the ground glass is rotating, which is the strongest scattering medium so far. However, when the strongly scattering medium is present in the optical path from the light source to CCD2 or the object, the lensless ghost imaging system hardly retrieves the image of the object. A theoretical analysis in terms of the second-order correlation function is also provided.     

High-resolution optical correlation imaging in a scattering medium

An optical correlation setup is used to image transparent objects through scattering media, and 10-mum longitudinal and 2.5-mum transverse resolution are achieved. Spectral-bandwidth sampling of the light source is made possible by a tunable dye laser and leads to signal enhancement as a result of sampling interferogram filtering. An optical system allows observation of sample slices without the need for a translation stage.     

Transmission of light through a random small-angle scattering medium

A theory of random small-angle scattering is presented. The photon dispersion partial differential equation is derived and the dispersion coefficient characterizing the medium is introduced. The equation is solved for a spatial impulse. The modulation transfer function and the contrast loss are derived as a funcion of spatial frequency, dispersion coefficient, and object-to-image distance. The limitation on resolution is shown by an indeterminancy relation based on the dispersion coefficient. The dispersion angle (rms value of scattering angle) is calculated as an example.     

High-contrast chemical imaging with gated heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

A novel method is presented which substantially improves the signal-to-background ratio for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy. It exploits the fixed phase relation between pump, Stokes and CARS fields together with the strong phase coherence in supercontinua generated by femtosecond lasers. Three phase-locked optical parametric amplifiers are used for the realisation of heterodyne signal detection. Proper pulse timing yields a gating mechanism which nearly completely suppresses solvent background signals. PACS 42.65.Dr; 42.65.Hw; 42.65.Yj     

Homodyne fiber optic backscatter dynamic light scattering

Optical homodyne detection in the backscatter direction is achieved through a pair of collinearly located fibers in a cylindrical probe body. One fiber illuminates the scattering solution while the other fiber provides optical mixing of the backscattered optical field with a local oscillator derived from the Fresnel reflections at the glass interfaces of the sample container. Homodyne detection is possible over a broad range of particle size and sample concentration with a single probe design.     

Stereoscopic imaging through scattering media

We develop and experimentally test a method for three-dimensional imaging of hidden objects in a scattering medium. In our scheme, objects hidden between two biological tissues at different depths from the viewing system are recovered, and their three-dimensional locations are computed. Analogous to a fly's two eyes, two microlens arrays are used to observe the hidden objects from different perspectives. At the output of each lens array we construct the objects from several sets of many speckled images with a previously suggested technique that uses a reference point. The differences of the reconstructed images in both arrays with respect to the reference point yield the information regarding the relative depth among the various objects.     

Holographic real-time imaging through a phase distorted medium

In this note we report on a new experiment using Fe-doped LiNbO₃ crystal (manufactured by ourselves) as a recording medium. It can compensate in real-time for the phase distorted wavefront of an object caused by a phase distorted medium (PDM). The wavefront of the object is required to pass through the PDM once only.     

Pulsed acousto-optic imaging in dynamic scattering media with heterodyne parallel speckle detection

We present a new detection scheme for acousto-optic tomography based on pulsed-wave ultrasound and illumination combined with heterodyne parallel speckle detection. This setup can perform tomographies inside several-centimeter-thick scattering samples. Test experiments confirm the suitability of this method for performing tomographies inside various types of optically scattering media, including liquids.     

Coherent diffraction imaging through shift-invariant scattering

Optical Review - In this paper, we present a method for single-shot phase imaging with a wide field of view based on coherent diffraction imaging. Coherent diffraction imaging can be implemented by...     

高散射性介质环境中的激光主动成像技术

基于激光照明的主动成像技术是将激光技术、成像技术、微弱目标的图像处理技术结合在一起而发展的综合技术。阐述了激光主动成像技术的工作原理,以及在高散射性介质环境中散射介质的散射作用对于成像质量的影响,详细阐述了目前降低散射光影响的主要成像方法,分析了各成像方法的特点及应用领域,展望了高散射性介质环境中激光主动成像技术的发展趋势。     

基于透明介质成像的光学散射神经网络

近年来,随着神经网络的发展,多种光电神经网络框架相继提出,在图像和语音处理等方面表现出强大的应用潜力.设计一种新型的基于透明介质成像的光学散射神经网络框架.描述透明介质双向散射传播的物理特性,采用多层堆叠散射介质构建神经网络单层智能单元,并利用非线性光电材料薄膜实现非线性激活,级联单层智能单元构建深度网络物理模型;根据...     

四元裂解位相调制实现相干光通过散射介质聚焦

光在不均匀介质中传播会受到散射的干扰,在这些散射材料中,例如粉末、生物组织、亚波长颗粒对入射光多次散射使得出射光无法聚焦,从而在接收平面形成散斑.本文提出四元裂解位相调制方法对入射相干光场进行调制,使其通过散射介质聚焦.此方法利用入射光场全场调制,充分考虑光场单元之间的干涉作用,从整个空间光调制器的调制面开始,逐层进行四元裂解及位相优化.运用此方法在实验中实现了相干光的前向散射和后向散射有效聚焦,这为生物医学领域中通过散射介质成像提供了新的思路和方法.     

Interferometry from a scattering medium

A two-beam random interferometer is demonstrated where coupling is facilitated by a scattering medium. A modulation observed in the normalized second-order intensity frequency correlation of the transmitted light is attributed to the relative temporal delay of the two beams and is insensitive to beam alignment and spacing.     

Synthetic aperture microscopy for high resolution imaging through a turbid medium

We report on synthetic aperture microscopy through a highly turbid medium. We first recorded a transmission matrix for the turbid medium with an angular basis of 20,000 complex images covering 0.6 NA. This effectively converts the medium into a lens of the same NA. Distorted images of a target object are then taken at 500 different angles of illumination covering 0.6 NA. For each of the distorted images, the original object image is reconstructed from the transmission matrix by the recently developed turbid lens imaging (TLI) technique. All 500 reconstructed images are synthesized to enhance the NA to 1.2 and thereby generate an object image with twice the enhanced spatial resolution of the individual images. Our method of applying aperture synthesis for TLI makes it possible to enhance the resolving power without increasing the number of transmission matrix elements. This relieves the demand for data acquisition and processing that has impeded the practicality of TLI.     

Use of spatial filtering in imaging through a randomly inhomogeneous medium

The possibility of improving the image quality of a coherently reflecting object, viewed through a randomly inhomogeneous medium, is investigated theoretically. Three cases of coherent illumination of the object by a plane wave are considered: illumination by unperturbed wave, illumination and viewing through different inhomogeneities of a medium, illumination and viewing through the same inhomogeneities. The spatial spectrum of the average intensity is investigated. It is shown that, when the fluctuations of the intensity in the plane of the receiving lens aperture are strong, the use of a suitable spatial filter located in the focal plane of the lens always gives an improvement of the image, but the quality of the image is better when illuminating and receiving optimal systems coincide.     

Use of spatial filtering in imaging through a randomly inhomogeneous medium

Abstract

The possibility of improving the image quality of a coherently reflecting object, viewed through a randomly inhomogeneous medium, is investigated theoretically. Three cases of coherent illumination of the object by a plane wave are considered: illumination by unperturbed wave, illumination and viewing through different inhomogeneities of a medium, illumination and viewing through the same inhomogeneities. The spatial spectrum of the average intensity is investigated. It is shown that, when the fluctuations of the intensity in the plane of the receiving lens aperture are strong, the use of a suitable spatial filter located in the focal plane of the lens always gives an improvement of the image, but the quality of the image is better when illuminating and receiving optimal systems coincide.     

Highly sensitive single-beam heterodyne coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

Single-beam coherent anti-Stokes Raman-scattering (CARS) microspectroscopy achieves a complete CARS scheme with a femtosecond laser. Here, we introduce heterodyne detection in a simple experimental extension: the optical fields driving the CARS process and the local oscillator used for heterodyning are derived from a single beam of ultrashort laser pulses by pulse shaping. The heterodyne signal is amplified by more than 3 orders of magnitude and is linearly dependent on the concentration of Raman scatterers. This dramatically increases the sensitivity of chemically selective detection at microscopic resolution while maintaining the simplicity of the single-beam setup.