Abstract

Light propagation in optical fibers is accompanied by random omnidirectional scattering. The small fraction of coherent guided light that escapes outside the cladding of the fiber forms a speckle pattern. Here, visual information imaged into the input facet of a multimode fiber with a transparent buffer is retrieved, using a convolutional neural network, from the side-scattered light at several locations along the fiber. This demonstration can promote the development of distributed optical imaging systems and optical links interfaced via the sides of the fiber.

© 2020 Optical Society of America

Imaging through opacity using a near-infrared low-spatial-coherence fiber light source

Rui Ma, Zhao Wang, Hua Hui Zhang, Wei Li Zhang, and Yun Jiang Rao
Opt. Lett. 45(13) 3816-3819 (2020)

Multimode-fiber-based single-shot full-field measurement of optical pulses

Wen Xiong, Shai Gertler, Hasan Yilmaz, and Hui Cao
Opt. Lett. 45(8) 2462-2465 (2020)

High-definition image transmission through dynamically perturbed multimode fiber by a self-attention based neural network

Guohua Wu, Yong Sun, Longfei Yin, Zhixiong Song, and Wenting Yu
Opt. Lett. 48(10) 2764-2767 (2023)

Seeing through multimode fibers with real-valued intensity transmission matrices

Tianrui Zhao, Sebastien Ourselin, Tom Vercauteren, and Wenfeng Xia
Opt. Express 28(14) 20978-20991 (2020)

Multitarget imaging through scattering media beyond the 3D optical memory effect

Wei Li, Jietao Liu, Shunfu He, Lixian Liu, and Xiaopeng Shao
Opt. Lett. 45(10) 2692-2695 (2020)