13-fold resolution gain through turbid layer via translated unknown speckle illumination

Fluorescence imaging through a turbid layer holds great promise for various biophotonics applications. Conventional wavefront shaping techniques aim to create and scan a focus spot through the turbid layer. Finding the correct input wavefront without direct access to the target plane remains a critical challenge. In this paper, we explore a new strategy for imaging through turbid layer with a large field of view. In our setup, a fluorescence sample is sandwiched between two turbid layers. Instead of generating one focus spot via wavefront shaping, we use an unshaped beam to illuminate the turbid layer and generate an unknown speckle pattern at the target plane over a wide field of view. By tilting the input wavefront, we raster scan the unknown speckle pattern via the memory effect and capture the corresponding low-resolution fluorescence images through the turbid layer. Different from the wavefront-shaping-based single-spot scanning, the proposed approach employs many spots (i.e., speckles) in parallel for extending the field of view. Based on all captured images, we jointly recover the fluorescence object, the unknown optical transfer function of the turbid layer, the translated step size, and the unknown speckle pattern. Without direct access to the object plane or knowledge of the turbid layer, we demonstrate a 13-fold resolution gain through the turbid layer using the reported strategy. We also demonstrate the use of this technique to improve the resolution of a low numerical aperture objective lens allowing to obtain both large field of view and high resolution at the same time. 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