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When a well-defined image propagates from the right-hand side to the left-hand side through a 1-km-long multimode fiber, its spatial profile and polarization will be strongly distorted. By flipping the wavefront of the distorted image for both polarizations simultaneously, a technique referred to as vectorial time reversal, an undistorted beam is formed after it passes from left to right through the optical fiber.

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Illustration by Yiyu Zhou

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