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arXiv:2105.01578 · Physical Review A

Light propagation in a random three-dimensional ensemble of point scatterers in a waveguide: Size-dependent switching between diffuse radiation transfer and Anderson localization of light

A. S. Kuraptsev, Igor M. Sokolov

Published Jun 21, 2022• 8 citations
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Abstract

Light transport in a disordered ensemble of resonant atoms placed in a waveguide is found to be very sensitive to the sizes of the cross section of a waveguide. Based on a self-consistent quantum microscopic model treating atoms as coherent radiating dipoles, we have shown that the nature of radiation transfer changes from Anderson localization regime in a single-mode waveguide to a traditional diffuse transfer in a multimode one. Moreover, the transmittance magnitude undergoes complicated steplike nonmonotonic dependence on the transverse sizes of a waveguide.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.105.063513

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