Photonic Sensors, Volume. 12, Issue 3, 220308(2022)

Alternative Interpretation of Speckle Autocorrelation Imaging Through Scattering Media

Honglin LIU1、*, Puxiang LAI2,3, Jingjing GAO1, Zhentao LIU1, Jianhong SHI4, and Shensheng HAN1,5
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory for Quantum Optics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
  • 3Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518000, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks and Center of Quantum Sensing and Information Processing (QSIP), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 5Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou 310024, China
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    High-resolution optical imaging through or within thick scattering media is a long sought after yet unreached goal. In the past decade, the thriving technique developments in wavefront measurement and manipulation do not significantly push the boundary forward. The optical diffusion limit is still a ceiling. In this work, we propose that a scattering medium can be conceptualized as an assembly of randomly packed pinhole cameras and the corresponding speckle pattern as a superposition of randomly shifted pinhole images. The concept is demonstrated through both simulation and experiments, confirming the new perspective to interpret the mechanism of information transmission through scattering media under incoherent illumination. We also analyze the efficiency of single-pinhole and dual-pinhole channels. While in infancy, the proposed method reveals a new perspective to understand imaging and information transmission through scattering media.

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    Honglin LIU, Puxiang LAI, Jingjing GAO, Zhentao LIU, Jianhong SHI, Shensheng HAN. Alternative Interpretation of Speckle Autocorrelation Imaging Through Scattering Media[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2022, 12(3): 220308

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Sep. 19, 2021

    Accepted: Dec. 22, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2023

    The Author Email: LIU Honglin (hlliu4@hotmail.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-022-0654-9

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