Contrary to intuition, a disordered scattering medium can be exploited to improve, rather than deteriorate, the focusing resolution of a lens.
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Fink, M. Sharper focus by random scattering. Nature Photon 4, 269–271 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.95
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