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  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For contributions to three-dimensional optical systems, nanomanufacturing, and computational imaging and for fundamental studies of multidimensional fields and light structures.

Overview

Rafael Piestun is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their work spans primarily the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy, with a particular focus on biophysics, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, and acoustics and ultrasonics.

Their research topics include advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, random lasers and scattering media, orbital angular momentum in optics, optical coherence tomography applications, photoacoustic and ultrasonic imaging, CCD and CMOS imaging sensors, and advanced optical sensing technologies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rafael Piestun include:

  • Simon Labouesse
  • Evolene Premillieu
  • Christophe Moser
  • Demetri Psaltis
  • Sakshi Singh

Piestun has published in various academic venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Optics Express
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Physics Photonics
  • Scientific Reports
  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging

Some recent papers by Rafael Piestun span topics related to wavefront shaping, optical microscopy, and imaging techniques, including:

  • "Roadmap on wavefront shaping and deep imaging in complex media," 2022, Journal of Physics Photonics
  • "Characterizing and correcting camera noise in back-illuminated sCMOS cameras," 2021, Optics Express
  • "Azimuthal multiplexing 3D diffractive optics," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Sub-acoustic resolution optical focusing through scattering using photoacoustic fluctuation guided wavefront shaping," 2020, Optics Express
  • "Smart Scattering Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy," 2020, ACS Photonics

Rafael Piestun was awarded the OSA Fellowship in 2011 for contributions to three-dimensional optical systems, nanomanufacturing, and computational imaging, as well as fundamental studies of multidimensional fields and light structures.

Best Publications

  • Three-dimensional single-molecule fluorescence imaging beyond the diffraction limit using a double-helix point spread function

    Rafael Piestun;Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani;Michael A. Thompson;Julie S. Biteen

  • High-speed scattering medium characterization with application to focusing light through turbid media.

    Donald B Conkey;Antonio M Caravaca-Aguirre;Rafael Piestun

  • Genetic algorithm optimization for focusing through turbid media in noisy environments

    Donald B Conkey;Albert N Brown;Antonio M Caravaca-Aguirre;Rafael Piestun

  • High-efficiency rotating point spread functions.

    Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani;Rafael Piestun

  • Depth from diffracted rotation.

    Adam Greengard;Yoav Y. Schechner;Rafael Piestun

  • Three dimensional tracking of fluorescent microparticles using a photon-limited double-helix response system

    Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani;Rafael Piestun

  • Electromagnetic degrees of freedom of an optical system

    Rafael Piestun;David A. B. Miller

  • Real-time resilient focusing through a bending multimode fiber

    Antonio M Caravaca-Aguirre;Eyal Niv;Donald B Conkey;Rafael Piestun

  • Propagation-invariant wave fields with finite energy.

    Rafael Piestun;Yoav Y. Schechner;Joseph Shamir

  • Minimally invasive multimode optical fiber microendoscope for deep brain fluorescence imaging

    Shay Ohayon;Antonio Caravaca-Aguirre;Rafael Piestun;James J. DiCarlo

  • Adaptive wavefront shaping for controlling nonlinear multimode interactions in optical fibres

    Omer Tzang;Antonio M. Caravaca-Aguirre;Kelvin Wagner;Rafael Piestun

  • Roadmap on Wavefront Shaping and deep imaging in complex media.

    Sylvain Gigan;Ori Katz;Hilton B. de Aguiar;Esben Ravn Andresen

  • Optimal 3D single-molecule localization for superresolution microscopy with aberrations and engineered point spread functions

    Sean Quirin;Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani;Rafael Piestun

  • Wave fields in three dimensions: analysis and synthesis

    Rafael Piestun;Boris Spektor;Joseph Shamir

  • Total external reflection from metamaterials with ultralow refractive index

    Brian T. Schwartz;Rafael Piestun

  • Single multimode fiber endoscope

    Antonio Miguel Caravaca-Aguirre;Rafael Piestun

  • 3D interferometric optical tweezers using a single spatial light modulator

    Ethan Schonbrun;Rafael Piestun;Pamela Jordan;Jon Cooper

  • Aperiodic Volume Optics

    Tim D. Gerke;Rafael Piestun

  • Wavefront shaping in complex media at 350 KHz with a 1D-to-2D transform

    Omer Tzang;Eyal Niv;Sakshi Singh;Simon Labouesse

  • Control of wave-front propagation with diffractive elements.

    Rafael Piestun;Joseph Shamir

  • Quantitative Multicolor Subdiffraction Imaging of Bacterial Protein Ultrastructures in Three Dimensions

    Andreas Gahlmann;Jerod L. Ptacin;Ginni Grover;Sean Quirin

  • Generalized propagation-invariant wave fields

    Rafael Piestun;Joseph Shamir

  • Minimally Invasive Multimode Optical FiberMicroendoscope for Deep Brain FluorescenceImaging

    Shay Ohayon;Antonio Miguel Caravaca Aguirre;Rafael Piestun;James DiCarlo

Frequent Co-Authors

W. E. Moerner
W. E. Moerner Stanford University
Yoav Y. Schechner
Yoav Y. Schechner Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Mark J. Ablowitz
Mark J. Ablowitz University of Colorado Boulder
Wounjhang Park
Wounjhang Park University of Colorado Boulder
Steven M. George
Steven M. George University of Colorado Boulder
Shimon Weiss
Shimon Weiss University of California, Los Angeles
James S. Harris
James S. Harris Stanford University
Markus B. Raschke
Markus B. Raschke University of Colorado Boulder
Ivan I. Smalyukh
Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado Boulder

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