title: 2-D PSTD Simulation of focusing monochromatic light through a macroscopic scattering medium via optical phase conjugation.
abstract: By employing the pseudospectral time-domain (PSTD) simulation technique, we analyze the propagation of monochromatic light through a macroscopic scattering medium. Simulation results show that, monochromatic light can be directed through a scattering medium and focus into a narrow peak; a range of wavelengths has been simulated. Furthermore, we compare: i) focusing monochromatic light through a macroscopic scattering medium, and, ii) focusing monochromatic light through vacuum. Based upon numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations, we demonstrate: with a fully-surrounding wavefront of specific amplitude and phase, sub-diffraction focusing can be achieved with monochromatic light, with or without the presence of a scattering medium.
authors: Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617 Taiwan.
authors: Snow H
authors: SH
authors: Tseng
keywords: (290.4210) Multiple scattering; (290.7050) Turbid media