Imaging through linear media is straightforward, but light beams propagating through nonlinear media become heavily distorted, rendering all usual imaging techniques practically useless. Now, scientists have found a way to recover images transmitted through nonlinear media — by using back-propagation simulations.
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Segev, M., Christodoulides, D. Looking into a self-distorting world. Nature Photon 3, 195–197 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.38
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