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Published August 2011 | Published
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Reflection-mode time-reversed ultrasonically encoded optical focusing into turbid media

Abstract

Time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing was recently proposed to deliver light dynamically to a tight region inside a scattering medium. In this letter, we report the first development of a reflection-mode TRUE optical focusing system. A high numerical aperture light guide is used to transmit the diffusely reflected light from a turbid medium to a phase-conjugate mirror (PCM), which is sensitive only to the ultrasound-tagged light. From the PCM, a phase conjugated wavefront of the tagged light is generated and conveyed by the same light guide back to the turbid medium, subsequently converging to the ultrasonic focal zone. We present experimental results from this system, which has the ability to focus light in a highly scattering medium with a round-trip optical penetration thickness (extinction coefficient multiplied by round-trip depth) as large as 160.

Additional Information

© 2011 SPIE. Paper 11206LR received Apr. 25, 2011; revised manuscript received Jun. 16, 2011; accepted for publication Jun. 17, 2011; published online Aug. 11, 2011. The authors thank Professor James Ballard for editing the manuscript. This research is sponsored in part by the NIH through Grants R01 EB000712 and U54 CA136398.

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