Proceedings Article | 30 May 2022
KEYWORDS: Light scattering, Speckle, Scattering, Wavefronts, Super resolution, Speckle pattern, Photoacoustic imaging, Acousto-optics, Acoustics, Tissue optics
Scattering of light in complex samples such as biological tissue renders most samples opaque to conventional optical imaging techniques, a problem of great practical importance [1]. However, although random, scattering of coherent light generates speckle patterns with universal statistics and angular and spatial correlations, that allow computational retrieval of diffraction-limited imaging [2,3]. Moreover, the random temporal fluctuations of speckle patterns can be exploited for super-resolution photo-acoustic and acousto-optic imaging, deep inside scattering samples [4-7].
I will present the fundamental principles and limitations of these novel approaches, as well as some of our recent efforts in undoing scattering by wavefront-shaping through image-metrics based optimization [8].
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