Abstract

We report the first experimental demonstration of combined spatial and temporal control of light trajectories through opaque media. This control is achieved by solely manipulating spatial degrees of freedom of the incident wavefront. As an application, we demonstrate that the present approach is capable to form bandwidth-limited ultrashort pulses from the otherwise randomly transmitted light with a controllable interaction time of the pulses with the medium. Our approach provides anew tool for fundamental studies of light propagation in complex media and has potential for applications for coherent control, sensing and imaging in nano- and biophotonics.

URL

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.103901

Authors

B. Gjonaj, J. Aulbach, A. P. Mosk, A. Lagendijk, P. M. Johnson

Year of publication

2011

Date published

01/2011

Journal

Phys. Rev. Lett.

Volume

106

Pages

103901: 1-4

DOI number

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.103901

Keywords

scattering, Wavefront shaping