Experimental Generation of Structured Light Beams through Highly Anisotropic Scattering Media with an Intensity Transmission Matrix Measurement

Abstract

Structured light beams have played important roles in the fields of optical imaging and optical manipulation. However, light fields scatter when they encounter highly anisotropic scattering media, such as biological tissue, which destroys their original structured fields and turns them into speckle fields. To reconstruct structured light beams through highly anisotropic scattering media, we present a method based on intensity transmission matrix which only relates the input and output light intensity distributions. Compared with the conventional method which relies on the measurement of complex-valued transmission matrix, our scheme is easy to implement, fast and stable. With the assistance of spatial filters, three kinds of structured light beams, Bessel-like beams, vortex beams and cylindrical vector beams, were constructed experimentally through a ZnO scattering layer. The present method is expected to promote optical applications through highly anisotropic scattering media.