• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 7, Issue 2, 026005 (2025)
Zhong Wen1,2,3,†, Qilin Deng1,2, Quanzhi Li1,2,3, Yizhou Tan4,5..., Jingshan Zhong6, Chiming Zhang1,2,3, Jiahe Zhang3, Clemens F. Kaminski7, Ying Gu4,5, Xu Liu1,2,3 and Qing Yang1,2,3,*|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1Zhejiang University, College of Optical Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China
  • 2Zhejiang University, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Hangzhou, China
  • 3Zhejiang University, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou, China
  • 4Chinese PLA General Hospital, The First Medical Center, Department of Laser Medicine, Beijing, China
  • 5Chinese PLA General Hospital, Hainan Hospital, Laser Medicine Center, Sanya, China
  • 6Zhejiang Laboratory, Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Computing, Hangzhou, China
  • 7University of Cambridge, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.7.2.026005 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Zhong Wen, Qilin Deng, Quanzhi Li, Yizhou Tan, Jingshan Zhong, Chiming Zhang, Jiahe Zhang, Clemens F. Kaminski, Ying Gu, Xu Liu, Qing Yang, "Cascaded adaptive aberration-eliminating multimode fiber imaging," Adv. Photon. 7, 026005 (2025) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In vivo microscopic imaging inside a biological lumen such as the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory airways, or within blood vessels has faced significant technological challenges for decades. A promising candidate technology is the multimode fiber (MMF) endoscope, which enables minimally invasive diagnostics at a resolution reaching the cellular level. However, for in vivo imaging applications deep inside a biological lumen, sample-induced aberrations and the dynamic dispersion in the MMF make the MMF endoscope a chaotic system with many unknowns, where multiple minor fluctuations can couple and compound into intractable problems. We introduce a dynamically encoding, cascaded, optical, and ultrathin polychromatic light-field endoscopy (DECOUPLE) to tackle this challenge. DECOUPLE includes an adaptive aberration correction that can accurately track and control MMF behavior in the spatial-frequency domain to compensate for chaos introduced during complex dynamic imaging processes. We demonstrate the flexibility and practicality of DECOUPLE for noninvasive volumetric imaging in two colors for light passing through various highly aberrating samples including 120-μm-thick onion epidermal slices and 80-μm-thick layers of fat emulsions. To summarize, we represent a significant step toward practical in vivo imaging deep within biological tissue.
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    Zhong Wen, Qilin Deng, Quanzhi Li, Yizhou Tan, Jingshan Zhong, Chiming Zhang, Jiahe Zhang, Clemens F. Kaminski, Ying Gu, Xu Liu, Qing Yang, "Cascaded adaptive aberration-eliminating multimode fiber imaging," Adv. Photon. 7, 026005 (2025)
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