Quantum-inspired computational wavefront shaping enables turbulence-resilient distributed aperture synthesis imaging.

ABSTRACT: Wavefront shaping is essential for optical imaging through aberrations, but conventional methods rely on physical modulators and iterative optimization, hindering real-time applications in dynamic environments like turbulence. Inspired by quantum nonlocal aberration cancellation, we propose a modulator-free, computational wavefront shaping technique. By leveraging classical correlated illumination and single-pixel detection, our method corrects aberrations via virtual phase modulation in the computational domain, eliminating physical spatial light modulators or array sensors. As validation, we demonstrate this approach in a distributed optical aperture synthesis imaging, where a phase-randomized laser array illuminates objects through turbulence. Despite unknown subsource phase mismatch an

SUBMITTER: Sun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12674157 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature