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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 30: Photonics 2
Q 30.9: Talk
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 12:30–12:45, SCH A118
Control of light transmission through opaque scattering media in space and time — •Jochen Aulbach1,2, Bergin Gjonaj1, Patrick M. Johnson1, Allard P. Mosk3, and Ad Lagendijk1 — 1FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF, Science Park 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands — 2Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech, CNRS, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France — 3Complex Photonic Systems, MESA+ Institute, University of Twente, Post Office Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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 wave front. As an application, we demonstrate that the present approach is capable to form bandwidth-limited ultra-short pulses from the otherwise randomly transmitted light with a controllable interaction time of the pulses with the medium. Our approach provides a new tool for fundamental studies of light propagation in complex media and has potential for applications for coherent control, sensing and imaging in nano- and bio-photonics.