About Super-depth Imaging Lab
Our lab has been a part of the Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science in Korea since July 1, 2016. It also belongs to the Department of Physics, Korea University. The labs are located at the R&D center and Asan Science building, both in Korea University Seoul campus.
The laboratory aims to develop optical methodologies for imaging, sensing, and light manipulation of targets located deep within scattering media with their working depth beyond the level of conventional approaches. In particular, we are determined to solve inverse scattering problems at the microscopic level of scattering events and understand the physics of wave propagation inside scattering media. At the same time, we are expanding our studies to apply the developed methods for important biological and biomedical problems.
Representative papers for major research topics
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Deep imaging within a complex medium
- Tracing multiple scattering trajectories for deep optical imaging in scattering media
(Nature Communications 14, 6871 (2023))
- Label-free adaptive optics single-molecule localization microscopy for whole zebrafish
(Nature Communications 14, 4185 (2023))
- Exploiting volumetric wave correlation for enhanced depth imaging in scattering medium
(Nature Communications 14, 1878 (2023))
- Computational conjugate adaptive optics for longitudinal through-skull imaging of cortical myelin
(Nature Communications 14, 105 (2023))
- Through-skull brain imaging in vivo at visible wavelengths via dimensionality reduction adaptive-optical microscopy (Science Advances 8, eabo4366 (2022))
- High-throughput volumetric adaptive optical imaging using compressed time-reversal matrix
(Light: Science & Applications 11,16 (2022))
- Laser scanning reflection-matrix microscopy for aberration-free imaging through intact mouse skull
(Nature Communications 11, 5721 (2020))
- Deep tissue space-gated microscopy via acousto-optic interaction (Nature Communications 11, 710 (2020))
- Deep optical imaging within complex scattering media (Nature Reviews Physics 2, 141 (2020))
- Label-free neuroimaging in vivo using synchronous angular scanning microscopy with single-scattering accumulation algorithm (Nature Communications 10, 3152 (2019))
- High-resolution adaptive optical imaging within thick scattering media using closed-loop accumulation of single scattering (Nature Communications 8, 2157 (2017))
- Imaging deep within a scattering medium using collective accumulation of single-scattered waves
(Nature Photonics 9, 253 (2015))
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Understanding and exploiting wave propagation within/through a complex medium
- Measuring the scattering tensor of a disordered nonlinear medium (Nature Physics 19, 1709 (2023))
- Wave propagation dynamics inside a complex scattering medium by the temporal control of backscattered waves (Optica 10, 569 (2023))
- Focusing of light energy inside a scattering medium by controlling the time-gated multiple light scattering
(Nature Photonics 12, 277 (2018))
- Measurement of the time-resolved reflection matrix for enhancing light energy delivery into a scattering medium (Physical Review Letters 111, 243901 (2013))
- Maximal energy transport through disordered media with the implementation of transmission eigenchannels
(Nature Photonics 6, 581 (2012))
- Transmission eigenchannels in a disordered medium (Physical Review B 83, 134207 (2011))
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Matrix approaches for endoscopy and nanoscopy
- Flexible-type ultrathin holographic endoscope for microscopic imaging of unstained biological tissues
(Nature Communications 13, 4469 (2022))
- Near-field transmission matrix microscopy for mapping high-order eigenmodes of subwavelength nanostructures (Nature Communications 11, 2575 (2020))
- Control of randomly scattered surface plasmon polaritons for multiple-input and multiple-output plasmonic switching devices (Nature Communications 8, 14636 (2017))
- Scanner-free and wide-field endoscopic imaging by using a single multimode optical fiber
(Physical Review Letters 109, 203901 (2012); Editor’s suggestion and highlighted with a viewpoint;
Research highlights in Nature 491, 641 (2012))
- Overcoming the diffraction limit using multiple light scattering in a highly disordered medium
(Physical Review Letters 107, 023902 (2011))
Super-depth Imaging Lab
Phone. +82-2-3290-3118
Korea University, 145 Anam-Ro, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 02841, Korea, 02841