Abstract

Liquid-crystal (LC) optically addressable spatial light modulators (OASLMs) allow control of the phase and amplitude of optical beams. By performing wave mixing in an OASLM, we show that coherent phase detection can be achieved for light beams passing through highly scattering media, such as foam layers with several cm thicknesses. Thanks to the adaptive response of our OASLM, the phase information on the speckle signal is transferred at the output of the OASLM to the plane wave reference beam, allowing the cleaning of optical distortions and the direct measurement of amplitude phase modulations with a small diameter single photodiode. A good signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is demonstrated for foam thickness up to 3 cm. These properties, together with the recently demonstrated sub-ms response time of our OASLM, make the method compatible with foreseen applications for imaging in biomedical tissues and turbid media.

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