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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
