ArticleNature photonics2025
Threading light through dynamic complex media.
Article in Nature photonics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Focusing scattered light through live tissue with channel-selected wavefront shaping.Biomedical optics express · 2026Article
- Epsilon-near-zero time-gate for high-fidelity spatial information transfer through dynamic scattering media.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rapid wavefront shaping using an optical gradient acquisition.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Self-configuring high-speed multi-plane light conversion.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Threading light through dynamic complex media.Nature photonics · 2025Article
- Reaching the precision limit with tensor-based wavefront shaping.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Photon-efficient optical tweezers via wavefront shaping.Science advances · 2024Article
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Abstract
The dynamic scattering of light impacts sensing and communication technologies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. Here we introduce a new way to control the propagation of light through time-varying complex media. Our strategy is based on the observation that in many dynamic scattering systems, some parts of the medium will change configuration more slowly than others. We experimentally demonstrate a suite of new techniques to identify and guide light through the more temporally stable channels within dynamic scattering media-threading optical fields around multiple highly dynamic pockets hidden at unknown locations inside. We first show how the temporal fluctuations in scattered light can be suppressed by optimizing the wavefront of the incident field. Next, we demonstrate how to accelerate this procedure by two orders of magnitude using a physically realized form of adjoint gradient descent optimization. Finally, we show how the time-averaged transmission matrix reveals a basis of temporal fluctuation eigenchannels that can be used to increase the stability of beam shaping through time-varying complex media such as bending multimode fibres. Our work has potential future applications to a variety of technologies reliant on general wave phenomena subject to dynamic conditions, from optics to microwaves and acoustics.
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