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physics.optics2026

A unified sensitivity kernel for coherent wave tomography in radar, seismic, ultrasound, and optical imaging

Alexey Yamilov

Imaging an inhomogeneous medium with waves rests on the response of a boundary measurement to a change of the medium inside, formally the sensitivity kernel of the inverse problem.…

physics.optics2025

Generalized Time-Reversal for Pulse Control in Diffusive Media

Rohin E. McIntosh, Arthur Goetschy, Alexey Yamilov +3

Time-reversal symmetry allows waves to retrace their paths through complex media and refocus at their origin. However, incomplete capture and reversal of scattered waves often limi…

physics.optics2025

Harnessing coherent-wave control for sensing applications

Pablo Jara, Arthur Goetschy, Hui Cao +1

Imaging techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) achieve deep, non-invasive sensing in turbid media, but they are const…

physics.optics2024

Spectral Width of Maximum Deposition Eigenchannels in Diffusive Media

Rohin E. McIntosh, Arthur Goetschy, Nicholas Bender +4

The maximum deposition eigenchannel provides the largest possible power delivery to a target region inside a diffusive medium by optimizing the incident wavefront of a monochromati…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

Anderson transition for light in three dimensions

Alexey Yamilov, Hui Cao, Sergey E. Skipetrov

We study Anderson transition for light in three dimensions by performing large-scale ab-initio simulations of electromagnetic wave transport in disordered ensembles of conducting s…

physics.optics2023★ 16 cited

Delivering Broadband Light Deep Inside Diffusive Media

Rohin McIntosh, Arthur Goetschy, Nicholas Bender +4

Wavefront shaping enables targeted delivery of coherent light into random-scattering media, such as biological tissue, by constructive interference of scattered waves. However, bro…

physics.optics2023★ 10 cited

Creating high-contrast patterns in multiple-scattering media via wavefront shaping

Liam Shaughnessy, Rohin E. McIntosh, Arthur Goetschy +5

Wavefront shaping allows focusing light through or inside strongly scattering media, but the background intensity also increases due to long-range correlations, reducing the target…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Sum rules for energy deposition eigenchannels in scattering systems

Alexey Yamilov, Nicholas Bender, Hui Cao

In a random-scattering system, the deposition matrix maps the incident wavefront to the internal field distribution across a target volume. The corresponding eigenchannels have bee…

physics.optics2022★ 20 cited

Coherent enhancement of optical remission in diffusive media

Nicholas Bender, Arthur Goetschy, Chia Wei Hsu +4

From the earth's crust to the human brain, remitted waves are used for sensing and imaging in a diverse range of diffusive media. Separating the source and detector increases the p…

physics.optics2022★ 66 cited

Anderson localization of electromagnetic waves in three dimensions

Alexey Yamilov, Sergey E. Skipetrov, Tyler W. Hughes +3

Anderson localization marks a halt of diffusive wave propagation in disordered systems. Despite extensive studies over the past 40 years, Anderson localization of light in three di…

physics.optics2021★ 195 cited

Roadmap on Wavefront Shaping and deep imaging in complex media

Sylvain Gigan, Ori Katz, Hilton B. de Aguiar +42

The last decade has seen the development of a wide set of tools, such as wavefront shaping, computational or fundamental methods, that allow to understand and control light propaga…

physics.optics2021★ 59 cited

Depth-Targeted Energy Deposition Deep Inside Scattering Media

Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Arthur Goetschy +3

A grand challenge in fundamental physics and practical applications is overcoming wave diffusion to deposit energy into a target region deep inside a diffusive system. While it is…

physics.optics2019★ 42 cited

Angular memory effect of transmission eigenchannels

Hasan Yılmaz, Chia Wei Hsu, Arthur Goetschy +4

The optical memory effect has emerged as a powerful tool for imaging through multiple-scattering media; however, the finite angular range of the memory effect limits the field of v…

physics.optics2018★ 70 cited

Transverse localization of transmission eigenchannels

Hasan Yılmaz, Chia Wei Hsu, Alexey Yamilov +1

Transmission eigenchannels are building blocks of coherent wave transport in diffusive media, and selective excitation of individual eigenchannels can lead to diverse transport beh…

physics.optics2016★ 16 cited

Enhancing light transmission through a random medium with inhomogeneous scattering and loss

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Hui Cao

We enhanced the total transmission of light through a disordered waveguide with spatially inhomogeneous scattering and loss by shaping the incident wavefront of a laser beam. Using…

physics.optics2016★ 2 cited

Detection of a diffusive cloak via second-order statistics

Milan Koirala, Alexey Yamilov

We propose a scheme to detect the diffusive cloak proposed by Schittny et al [Science 345, 427 (2014)]. We exploit the fact that diffusion of light is an approximation that disrega…

physics.optics2016★ 101 cited

Control of energy density inside disordered medium by coupling to open or closed channels

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Sasha Petrenko +2

We demonstrate experimentally an efficient control of light intensity distribution inside a random scattering system. The adaptive wavefront shaping technique is applied to a silic…

physics.optics2015★ 29 cited

Shape-dependence of transmission, reflection and absorption eigenvalue densities in disordered waveguides with dissipation

A. Yamilov, S. Petrenko, R. Sarma +1

The universal bimodal distribution of transmission eigenvalues in lossless diffusive systems un- derpins such celebrated phenomena as universal conductance fluctuations, quantum sh…

physics.optics2015★ 29 cited

Control of mesoscopic transport by modifying transmission channels in opaque media

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Seng Fatt Liew +2

While controlling particle diffusion in a confined geometry is a popular approach taken by both natural and artificial systems, it has not been widely adopted for controlling light…

physics.optics2015

Using geometry to manipulate long-range correlation of light inside disordered media

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Pauf Neupane +1

We demonstrate experimentally that long-range intensity correlation for light propagating inside random photonic waveguides can be modified by changing the shape of the waveguide.…

physics.optics2014★ 10 cited

Control of Light Diffusion in a Disordered Photonic Waveguide

Raktim Sarma, Timofey Golubev, Alexey Yamilov +1

We control the diffusion of light in a disordered photonic waveguide by modulating the waveguide geometry. In a single waveguide of varying cross-section, the diffusion coefficient…

physics.optics2014★ 17 cited

Probing Long-Range Intensity Correlations inside Disordered Photonic Nanostructures

Raktim Sarma, Alexey Yamilov, Pauf Neupane +2

We report direct observation of the development of long-range spatial intensity correlations and the growth of intensity fluctuations inside the random media. We fabricated quasi-t…

physics.optics2013★ 67 cited

Position-dependent diffusion of light in disordered waveguides

Alexey G. Yamilov, Raktim Sarma, Brandon Redding +3

Diffusion has been widely used to describe a random walk of particles or waves, and it requires only one parameter -- the diffusion constant. For waves, however, diffusion is an ap…

physics.optics2013★ 15 cited

Interplay between localization and absorption in disordered waveguides

Alexey G. Yamilov, Ben Payne

This work presents results of ab-initio simulations of continuous wave transport in disordered absorbing waveguides. Wave interference effects cause deviations from diffusive pictu…