Adaptive optics for high-resolution imaging

KM Hampson, R Turcotte, DT Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Adaptive optics (AO) is a technique that corrects for optical aberrations. It was originally
proposed to correct for the blurring effect of atmospheric turbulence on images in ground …

Imaging and computing with disorder

S Gigan - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Complex and inhomogeneous media are ubiquitous around us. Snow, fog, biological
tissues and turbid water—even just a piece of frosted glass—are opaque to light due to …

Deep learning wavefront sensing

Y Nishizaki, M Valdivia, R Horisaki, K Kitaguchi… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We present a new class of wavefront sensors by extending their design space based on
machine learning. This approach simplifies both the optical hardware and image processing …

Phlatcam: Designed phase-mask based thin lensless camera

V Boominathan, JK Adams, JT Robinson… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a versatile thin lensless camera with a designed phase-mask placed at sub-
2 mm from an imaging CMOS sensor. Using wave optics and phase retrieval methods, we …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-thin 3D lensless fiber endoscopy using diffractive optical elements and deep neural networks

R Kuschmierz, E Scharf… - Light: Advanced …, 2021 - light-am.com
Minimally invasive endoscopes are indispensable in biomedicine. Coherent fiber bundles
(CFBs) enable ultrathin lensless endoscopes. However, the propagation of light through a …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

On-chip fluorescence microscopy with a random microlens diffuser

G Kuo, F Linda Liu, I Grossrubatscher, R Ng… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present an on-chip, widefield fluorescence microscope, which consists of a diffuser
placed a few millimeters away from a traditional image sensor. The diffuser replaces the …

Wavefront microscopy using quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry: From bioimaging to nanophotonics

G Baffou - ACS photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Common cameras are only sensitive to the intensity of light, discarding an essential feature
of a light wave: its phase profile or, equivalently, its wavefront profile. This Review focuses …

Roadmap on chaos-inspired imaging technologies (CI2-Tech)

J Rosen, HB de Aguiar, V Anand, YS Baek, S Gigan… - Applied Physics B, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, rapid developments in imaging concepts and computational methods have
given rise to a new generation of imaging technologies based on chaos. These chaos …

Quantitative phase microscopy using quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry (QLSI): principle, terminology, algorithm and grating shadow description

G Baffou - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quadriwave lateral shearing interferometry (QLSI) is a quantitative phase imaging technique
based on the use of a diffraction grating placed in front of a camera. This grating creates a …