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Making sensing of incoherence

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Obtaining information about an object or medium with an unknown, random scattering potential is notoriously difficult. The projection of random illumination patterns as probe is now shown to help.

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Figure 1: Stochastic optical sensing.

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Fleischer, J. Making sensing of incoherence. Nature Photon 10, 211–213 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.52

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