You might expect that an opaque material will always hinder the transmission of light by absorbing or scattering any light that is shone on it. But by carefully preparing a beam of laser light, ...

Even diffuse objects like clouds or sugar cubes cast shadows, because they’re disordered media that scatter light waves. But now, researchers at TU Wien and Utrecht University have found a way to ...

A scattering-invariant mode of light is generated by a spatial light modulator. This modulated beam propagates through free space (top) or a strongly scattering medium (bottom) such that the pattern ...

A seemingly paradoxical prediction in physics has now been confirmed in an experiment: No matter whether an object is opaque or transparent, the average length of the light's paths through the object ...

Light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, shows the principle of diffusion - like tea particles in hot water. The deeper light is penetrating into the layer, the lower the energy ...

Imaging in disordered materials such as biological tissues or the atmosphere is complicated by the inherently inhomogeneous refractive index, reflecting much of the incident light back and hindering ...

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IBS scientists are able to focus on the scattered waves that have interacted with the target and maximize their intensity. A body's complex environment inhibits most of the light waves from reaching ...

A transparent substance will allow light to travel through on a straight line, in a turbid substance the light will be scattered numerous times, traveling on more complicated zig-zag trajectories. But ...