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Acousto-optic imaging

Merging the best of two worlds

The combination of ultrasound and optics, together with statistics, now permits light focusing and imaging deep inside strongly scattering media at the optical diffraction limit.

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Figure 1: Experimental set-up and results by Judkewitz et al.

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Lerosey, G., Fink, M. Merging the best of two worlds. Nature Photon 7, 265–267 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.74

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