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    • Optics and Photonics
    • Statistical Imaging
    • Biomedical Optics

    Background:

    • Controlling random light is crucial for statistical imaging techniques like speckle microscopy, particularly in biomedical applications to minimize photobleaching.
    • Existing methods for tailoring light intensity statistics, such as speckle patterns, have limitations.
    • Caustic networks offer unique intensity structures with low-intensity regions and rare high-intensity spikes, but control over their formation is limited.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a method for generating light fields with controllable and desired intensity statistics based on caustic networks.
    • To overcome the limitations in controlling the bright and dark area ratios in existing caustic network patterns.
    • To enable advanced statistical imaging by providing tailored illumination.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a novel algorithm to compute initial phase fronts for light fields.
    • Utilizing wave propagation to transform initial phase fronts into desired caustic network patterns.
    • Experimental realization and characterization of caustic networks with specific probability density functions.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully generated light fields that evolve into caustic networks with tailored intensity statistics.
    • Demonstrated precise control over the probability density functions of the caustic network intensity.
    • Achieved various patterns, including those with constant, linearly decreasing, and mono-exponential probability density functions.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed algorithm provides effective control over caustic network formation and their intensity statistics.
    • This advancement enables the application of caustic networks in fields requiring specific light intensity distributions.
    • Offers a new tool for enhancing statistical imaging and biomedical applications through controlled random light illumination.