Browsing by Author "Yamilov, A."

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Delivering broadband light deep into diffusive media
(IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-09-04) McIntosh, R.; Bender, N.; Yamilov, A.; Goetschy, A.; Hsu, C. W.; Yılmaz, Hasan; Cao, H.
Waves propagate diffusively through disordered media, such as biological tissue, clouds, and paint, due to random scattering. Recent advances in optical wavefront shaping techniques have enabled controlling coherent light propagation in multiple-scattering samples. We overcome wave diffusion to deliver optical energy into a target region of arbitrary size and shape anywhere inside a strong-scattering system. This is particularly important for applications such as photoacoustic microscopy and optogenetics, where light needs to be deposited deep into biological tissue. For monochromatic light, we previously introduced the deposition matrix (DM) Z(ω) , which maps its input wavefront to the field distribution in the target region. The eigenchannel with the largest eigenvalue provides the wavefront for maximal energy delivery. Since the enhancement is achieved via constructive interference of scattered waves, the optimal wavefront will vary with input wavelength.
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Depth-targeted energy delivery deep inside scattering media
(Nature Research, 2022-01-27) Bender, N.; Yamilov, A.; Goetschy, A.; Yılmaz, Hasan; Hsu, C. W.; Cao, H.
Diffusion makes it difficult to predict and control wave transport through a medium. Overcoming wave diffusion to deliver energy into a target region deep inside a diffusive system is an important challenge for applications, but also represents an interesting fundamental question. It is known that coherently controlling the incident wavefront allows diffraction-limited focusing inside a diffusive system, but in many applications, the targets are significantly larger than a focus and the maximum deliverable energy remains unknown. Here we introduce the ‘deposition matrix’, which maps an input wavefront to the internal field distribution, and we theoretically predict the ultimate limit on energy enhancement at any depth. Additionally, we find that the maximum obtainable energy enhancement occurs at three-fourths the thickness of the diffusive system, regardless of its scattering strength. We experimentally verify our predictions by measuring the deposition matrix in two-dimensional diffusive waveguides. The experiment gives direct access to the internal field distribution from the third dimension, and we can excite the eigenstates to enhance or suppress the energy within an extended target region. Our analysis reveals that such enhancement or suppression results from both selective transmission-eigenchannel excitation and constructive or destructive interference among these channels.