Needle Beam Generated by a Laser Beam Passing Through a Scattering Medium

The propagation of coherent light through an inhomogeneous medium generates a speckle pattern caused by the complex interference of randomly scattered waves. The speckle pattern does not resemble the incident beam profile. However, the spatially random pattern can be reshaped into a bright focal spo...

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Main Authors: Ziyang Chen, Xiansheng Hu, Xuanxuan Ji, Jixiong Pu
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Published: IEEE 2018-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8468015/
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author Ziyang Chen
Xiansheng Hu
Xuanxuan Ji
Jixiong Pu
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description The propagation of coherent light through an inhomogeneous medium generates a speckle pattern caused by the complex interference of randomly scattered waves. The speckle pattern does not resemble the incident beam profile. However, the spatially random pattern can be reshaped into a bright focal spot by wavefront shaping. And, in general, the focused intensity is of maximum just at the focal plane, and the focused intensity of the shaped focal beam decreases sharply with incremental distance from the focal plane. In this paper, we report the experimental generation of a needle beam as the laser beam passes through a scattering medium. The intensity and beam size of the needle beam remain nearly intact within the distance of 25 mm, which indicates that the focal pattern has a uniform property.
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spelling doaj-art-39dc0c76bd4f43599f1aceaf864434cc2025-08-20T03:15:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-011051810.1109/JPHOT.2018.28712168468015Needle Beam Generated by a Laser Beam Passing Through a Scattering MediumZiyang Chen0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2467-8372Xiansheng Hu1Xuanxuan Ji2Jixiong Pu3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-6683College of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, ChinaThe propagation of coherent light through an inhomogeneous medium generates a speckle pattern caused by the complex interference of randomly scattered waves. The speckle pattern does not resemble the incident beam profile. However, the spatially random pattern can be reshaped into a bright focal spot by wavefront shaping. And, in general, the focused intensity is of maximum just at the focal plane, and the focused intensity of the shaped focal beam decreases sharply with incremental distance from the focal plane. In this paper, we report the experimental generation of a needle beam as the laser beam passes through a scattering medium. The intensity and beam size of the needle beam remain nearly intact within the distance of 25 mm, which indicates that the focal pattern has a uniform property.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8468015/Speckleoptical field modulation
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IEEE Photonics Journal
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optical field modulation
title Needle Beam Generated by a Laser Beam Passing Through a Scattering Medium
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title_full_unstemmed Needle Beam Generated by a Laser Beam Passing Through a Scattering Medium
title_short Needle Beam Generated by a Laser Beam Passing Through a Scattering Medium
title_sort needle beam generated by a laser beam passing through a scattering medium
topic Speckle
optical field modulation
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