Fast wavefront optimization for focusing through biological tissue (Conference Presentation)

Baptiste Blochet; Laurent Bourdieu; Sylvain Gigan

doi:10.1117/12.2251875

24 April 2017 Fast wavefront optimization for focusing through biological tissue (Conference Presentation)

Baptiste Blochet, Laurent Bourdieu, Sylvain Gigan

Proceedings Volume 10073, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems III; 100730T (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251875
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The propagation of light in biological tissues is rapidly dominated by multiple scattering: ballistic light is exponentially attenuated, which limits the penetration depth of conventional microscopy techniques. For coherent light, the recombination of the different scattered paths creates a complex interference: speckle. Recently, different wavefront shaping techniques have been developed to coherently manipulate the speckle. It opens the possibility to focus light through complex media and ultimately to image in them, provided however that the medium can be considered as stationary. We have studied the possibility to focus in and through time-varying biological tissues. Their intrinsic temporal dynamics creates a fast decorrelation of the speckle pattern. Therefore, focusing through biological tissues requires fast wavefront shaping devices, sensors and algorithms. We have investigated the use of a MEMS-based spatial light modulator (SLM) and a fast photodetector, combined with FPGA electronics to implement a closed-loop optimization. Our optimization process is just limited by the temporal dynamics of the SLM (200µs) and the computation time (45µs), thus corresponding to a rate of 4 kHz. To our knowledge, it’s the fastest closed loop optimization using phase modulators. We have studied the focusing through colloidal solutions of TiO2 particles in glycerol, allowing tunable temporal stability, and scattering properties similar to biological tissues. We have shown that our set-up fulfills the required characteristics (speed, enhancement) to focus through biological tissues. We are currently investigating the focusing through acute rat brain slices and the memory effect in dynamic scattering media.

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Baptiste Blochet, Laurent Bourdieu, and Sylvain Gigan "Fast wavefront optimization for focusing through biological tissue (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10073, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems III, 100730T (24 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2251875

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