Scattering media as random micro-phase-pinhole arrays for incoherent information transmission
作为非相干信息传输的随机微相孔阵列散射介质
非相干情報伝送における散乱媒質はランダムな微小位相ピンホール配列として機能する
산란 매질은 무질서한 미세 위상-핀홀 배열로서 비결정적 정보 전송을 위한 매체이다
Medios de dispersión como matrices aleatorias de microfocos de fase para la transmisión de información incoherente
Médias de diffusion comme des réseaux aléatoires de micro-pores de phase pour la transmission d'informations incohérentes
Среды рассеяния как случайные микроскопические фазовые отверстия-дырчатые массивы для некоherentной передачи информации
Xuyu Zhang ¹ ², Haoran Li ³, Tianting Zhong ³, Dawei Zhang ¹, Songlin Zhuang ¹, Shensheng Han ² ⁴, Puxiang Lai ³ ⁵ ⁶, Honglin Liu ² ⁴
¹ School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
中国 上海 上海理工大学光电信息与计算机工程学院
² Wangzhijiang Innovation Center for Laser, Aerospace Laser Technology and System Department, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
中国 上海 中国科学院上海光学精密机械研究所 空天激光技术与系统部 王之江创新中心
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
中国 香港 香港理工大学生物医学工程系
⁴ Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100049, China
中国 北京 中国科学院大学材料科学与光电技术学院
⁵ Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518000, China
中国 深圳 香港理工大学深圳研究院
⁶ Photonics Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
中国 香港 香港理工大学光子技术研究院
Imaging through an optically thick scattering medium remains a formidable challenge, typically addressed by treating the medium as a stochastic "black box" that scrambles information into random speckle patterns. Here, we present a fundamental shift in this perspective: under incoherent illumination, the scattering medium functions as a random array of micro-phase-pinholes, serving as discrete channels for information transmission.
By proposing and validating a micro-phase-pinhole model, we reveal that individual microchannels possess distinct transmission capacities that govern imaging quality. Crucially, we demonstrate that specific, randomly distributed combinations of these phase pinholes can spontaneously generate high-fidelity images directly within the speckle field. Guided by this fundamental physical interpretation, we develop a feature fusion algorithm that extracts and integrates high-quality information from selective channel combinations within a single speckle pattern.
This work reveals the underlying physical principles of incoherent information delivery through scattering media. Transition from the "black box" view to a deterministic channel model is a strong conceptual leap, offering a novel pathway to overcome thickness limitation in imaging through scattering media.
