• DocumentCode
    689842
  • Title

    Speckle statistics of Anderson-localized light in disordered waveguide arrays

  • Author

    Kondakci, H. Esat ; Abouraddy, A.F. ; Saleh, B.E.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that coherent light travelling through a 1-D lattice of waveguides with off-diagonal disorder exhibits super-thermal statistics (g(2) > 2), a manifestation of constrained disorder with underlying symmetries. Sub-thermal statistics may be exhibited for diagonal disorder.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; optical arrays; optical lattices; optical waveguides; speckle; statistical analysis; 1D optical lattice; Anderson-localized light; light coherence; off-diagonal disordered waveguide arrays; speckle statistics; subthermal statistics; superthermal statistics; Adaptive optics; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Speckle;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834231