Passive one-way aberration correction using four-wave mixing.

We have demonstrated a passive method for recovering an optical image that has been degraded by being passed through a thin phase-aberrating medium. This method relies on a point source situated near the object of interest to sample the aberration impressed upon the wave front. Degenerate four-wave mixing in fluorescein-doped boric acid glass was used to reconstruct the wave front.

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