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Frontiers in Optics

Electromagnetic modes and dynamics of localized waves

Jing Wang, Azriel Z. Genack

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have found the central frequencies, linewidths and field speckle patterns in transmission for quasimodes of random media. We study the time evolution of modes and correlation using time-frequency analysis.
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10.1364/fio.2009.ftuj2

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