Abstract

By compensating the random phase delay acquired while a light beam crosses a scattering curtain, it is possible to address the light at selected target position beyond the obstacle. An opaque lens can produce foci with a resolution higher than conventional optics if a strongly scattering medium is exploited. In practice, subwavelength resolution is obtained only for weakly transmitting samples. Herein we present a method which allows obtaining tiny bright optical spots even in presence of a minimum amount of scattering (semi-transparent media) in the beam path. Using a High-Pass spatial filter we block the pseudo-ballistic components of the transmitted beam, we are able to gather light on a spot with a diameter which is one third of the typical speckle grain in absence of the filter.

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