瞬态光学研究室知识库

Nonlinear imaging preserves more detailed information by exploiting the presence and interaction of many photons in nonlinear optics. Despite significant progress, nonlinear methods for white-light image recovery are still lacking. We report the white-light image reconstruction via seeded modulation instability, which is called dynamical stochastic resonance. The underlying signals are illuminated with white light emitted from a light-emitting diode and are reinforced by coupling with scattering noise in a noninstantaneous self-focusing medium. Our experimental results show that this nonlinear approach is effective in improving the contrast and visibility of completely blurred white-light images by guiding noise rather than by filtering noise. The signals of the entire temporal spectrum collectively seed a potential in the medium. In turn, the potential leads to the enhancement of signal modes by concentrating scattering noise. A theoretical growth rate is derived and the numerical simulations are presented to match the experimental observation. We also demonstrate that the underlying signals can be preferably reproduced by asynchronously probing the seeded potential with another white-light beam. Our work reveals an alternative scheme for white-light image detection.