Opto-Electronics and Measurement Techniques, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Research-Educational Institute of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia.
Sci Rep. 2022 Jun 11;12(1):9711. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-14350-3.
Last decades the effects of localization and focusing of light in turbid randomly inhomogeneous tissue-like scattering medium have been attracting a particular attention. Weak localization of light in disordered and weakly ordered biological tissue, polarization memory effect, correlations in transmission matrices, focusing light by wavefronts shaping have been widely exploited. Here, we represent an experimentally observed and theoretically confirmed new type of spatial localization of light within biological tissues. General description of the observed phenomenon based on Monte Carlo ray tracing model is provided. We find that innate body arrangements of individual adipocytes can act as a cascade of quasi-ordered microscale lenses confining propagation of light within adipose tissues similar to lens lightguides. The observed spatially-resolved longitudinal multi-focusing of light within disordered adipose biological tissues can naturally lead greater spatial control and enhance light-tissue interactions.
过去几十年,在混浊的随机非均匀散射介质中实现光的局域化和聚焦的效果一直受到特别关注。无序和弱有序生物组织中的光弱局域化、偏振记忆效应、传输矩阵的相关性、通过波前整形聚焦光等方面已得到广泛应用。在此,我们提出了在生物组织中观察到的一种新型光空间局域化现象。基于蒙特卡罗光线追踪模型提供了对观察到的现象的一般描述。我们发现,单个脂肪细胞的固有身体排列可以作为准有序微尺度透镜的级联,将光限制在脂肪组织内传播,类似于透镜光导。在无序脂肪生物组织内观察到的光空间分辨纵向多聚焦可以自然地实现更大的空间控制并增强光与组织的相互作用。