Scattering-based microscope imaging of light beams in soft birefringent media with orientational fluctuations

Guilhem Poy; Slobodan Žumer

doi:10.1117/12.2632215

3 October 2022 Scattering-based microscope imaging of light beams in soft birefringent media with orientational fluctuations

Guilhem Poy, Slobodan Žumer

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Proceedings Volume 12207, Liquid Crystals XXVI; 1220708 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632215
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Thanks to their giant Kerr-like nonlinear optical response, liquid crystals support the existence of spatial optical solitons called nematicons. These solitons can be experimentally imaged in a microscope thanks to the fluctuation-induced scattering of the laser beam, but the associated microscope images are generally hard to interpret due to the incoherent nature of light scattering. In this contribution, we introduce a theoretical framework allowing to simulate microscope images originating from bulk scattering sources. We apply this framework to the visualization of bouncing solitons, and show that our framework could be the basis for a novel tomography technique of optical fields.

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Guilhem Poy and Slobodan Žumer "Scattering-based microscope imaging of light beams in soft birefringent media with orientational fluctuations", Proc. SPIE 12207, Liquid Crystals XXVI, 1220708 (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632215

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