Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 8, Issue 2, 1550007(2015)

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

Qiang Yang*, Xinzhu Sang, and Daxiong Xu
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  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing 100876, P. R. China
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    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 timereversal 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.

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    Qiang Yang, Xinzhu Sang, Daxiong Xu. Time-reversed optical focusing through scattering media by digital full phase and amplitude recovery using a single phase-only SLM[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2015, 8(2): 1550007

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    Paper Information

    Received: Mar. 17, 2014

    Accepted: Jun. 2, 2014

    Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019

    The Author Email: Yang Qiang (yangqiang16@gmail.com)

    DOI: 10.1142/s1793545815500078

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