Abstract

One-way image transmission of two-dimensional images through an aberrating medium is a problem that has been perplexing researchers for many years. Many possible solutions using holography have been proposed. However, most of them address a very small class of aberrators known as a “thin” aber-rator. Mathematically, a thin aberrator imprints a multiplicative phase factor e^jϕ to the incident image, where ϕ is a random variable on the image plane. For any other aberrators, which we call “thick” aberrators, the problem becomes extremely difficult. To our knowledge, no successful demonstration of one-way imaging through a thick aberrator has been reported until this work.

© 1993 Optical Society of America