New Shapes of Laser Beam Sneak through Opaque Media (IMAGE)

Yale University

New Shapes of Laser Beam Sneak through Opaque Media

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By shaping its spatial wavefront, a laser beam can propagate through a strongly scattering medium without lateral diffusion. In addition, the backscattering of light is suppressed.

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Yale University

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