MEMS spatial light modulators for controlled optical transmission through nearly opaque materials

摘要

A reflective microelectromechanical mirror array was used to control the intensity distribution of a coherent beam that was propagated through a strongly scattering medium. The controller modulated phase spatially in a plane upstream of the scattering medium and monitored intensity spatially in a plane downstream of the medium. Optimization techniques were used to maximize the intensity at a single point in the downstream plane. Intensity enhancement by factors of several hundred were achieved within a few thousand iterations using a MEMS segmented deformable mirror (e.g. a spatial light modulator) with 1020 independent segments. Experimental results are reported for alternate optimization approaches and for optimization through dynamically translating scattering media.