Anderson localization of light in dimension $d-1$

Autor: Máximo, Carlos E., Moreira, Noel A., Kaiser, Robin, Bachelard, Romain
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. A 100, 063845 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063845
Popis: Localization of electromagnetic waves in disordered potentials is prevented by polarization terms, so only light scattering systems of dimensions $d=1$ and $2$ with scalar properties exhibit light localization. We here show that this result breaks down due to the existence of surface modes, which possess lower-dimensional scattering properties. In particular, vectorial waves in $3D$ ($2D$) presents surface localized modes with scaling consistent with localization $2D$ ($1D$)
Comment: 5 pages and 5 figures
Databáze: arXiv