Title: Light fields in complex media: mesoscopic scattering meets wave control,
Abstract: The newly emerging field of wave front shaping in complex media has recently
seen enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the
experimental accessibility of the information stored in the scattering matrix
of a disordered medium, which can nowadays routinely be exploited to focus
light as well as to image or to transmit information even across highly turbid
scattering samples. We will provide an overview of these new techniques, of
their experimental implementations as well as of the underlying theoretical
concepts following from mesoscopic scattering theory. In particular, we will
highlight the intimate connections between quantum transport phenomena and the
scattering of light fields in disordered media, which can both be described by
the same theoretical concepts. We also put particular emphasis on how the above
topics relate to application-oriented research fields such as optical imaging,
sensing and communication.