Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments,fog,clouds,or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology,including bio-imaging,underwater communic...Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments,fog,clouds,or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology,including bio-imaging,underwater communication,and free-space communication technologies.While many of these applications traditionally relied on conventional,linearly polarized Gaussian beams,light possesses many degrees of freedom that are still largely unexplored,such as spin angular momentum(SAM)and orbital angular momentum(OAM).Here,we present nonlinear light-matter interactions of such complex light beams with"rotational"degrees of freedom in engineered nonlinear colloidal media.By making use of both variational and perturbative approach,we consider non-cylindrical optical vortices,elliptical optical vortices,and higher-order Bessel beams integrated in time(HOBBIT)to predict the dynamics and stability of the evolution of these beams.These results may find applications in many scenarios involving light transmission in strongly scattering environments.展开更多
By manipulating the phase map of a wavefront of light using a spatial light modulator,the scattered light can be sharply focused on a specific target.Several iterative optimization algo-rithrns for obtaining the optim...By manipulating the phase map of a wavefront of light using a spatial light modulator,the scattered light can be sharply focused on a specific target.Several iterative optimization algo-rithrns for obtaining the optimumn phase map have been explored.However,there has not been a comparative study on the performance of these algorithms.In this paper,six optimization algorithms for wavefront shaping inchuding continuous sequential,partitioning algorithm,transmission matrix estimation method,particle swarm optimization,genetic algorithm(GA),and simulated annealing(SA)are discussed and compared based on their efficiency when introduced with various measurement noise levels.展开更多
基金support from the Office of Naval Research MURI(N00014-20-1-2550)。
文摘Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments,fog,clouds,or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology,including bio-imaging,underwater communication,and free-space communication technologies.While many of these applications traditionally relied on conventional,linearly polarized Gaussian beams,light possesses many degrees of freedom that are still largely unexplored,such as spin angular momentum(SAM)and orbital angular momentum(OAM).Here,we present nonlinear light-matter interactions of such complex light beams with"rotational"degrees of freedom in engineered nonlinear colloidal media.By making use of both variational and perturbative approach,we consider non-cylindrical optical vortices,elliptical optical vortices,and higher-order Bessel beams integrated in time(HOBBIT)to predict the dynamics and stability of the evolution of these beams.These results may find applications in many scenarios involving light transmission in strongly scattering environments.
文摘By manipulating the phase map of a wavefront of light using a spatial light modulator,the scattered light can be sharply focused on a specific target.Several iterative optimization algo-rithrns for obtaining the optimumn phase map have been explored.However,there has not been a comparative study on the performance of these algorithms.In this paper,six optimization algorithms for wavefront shaping inchuding continuous sequential,partitioning algorithm,transmission matrix estimation method,particle swarm optimization,genetic algorithm(GA),and simulated annealing(SA)are discussed and compared based on their efficiency when introduced with various measurement noise levels.
