A new paper with collaborators Jacopo Bertolotti and Sophie Brasselet is just out in Optics Express with the title Wide field fluorescence epi-microscopy behind a scattering medium enabled by speckle correlations.

We show how one can image through a (discrete) scattering medium with a bog-standard epi-fluorescence microscope and acquire images in a single shot. An improved algorithm allowed us to recover the underlying fluorescent object from the (apparently) featureless speckle pattern that was recorded.

Matthias Hofer, a PhD student of Sophie's came over to Exeter for four months to work on this study with the help of funding that Jacopo had obtained from the EPSRC.

This is a new direction for our lab and working with our colleague Jacopo on this has been a lot of fun. We are still novices but luckily Jacopo is an expert on this topic and we are looking forward to future work in this area.

Find the full paper as open access publication at Optics Express.