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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Light Propagation in Temporally Disordered Media

Yonatan Sharabi, Eran Lustig, Moti Segev

Published Jan 1, 2019• 4 citations
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Abstract

We study light propagation in a medium with a homogeneous refractive index that varies randomly in time. We find that, in stark contrast to spatial disorder, temporal disorder causes exponential increase of the light intensity.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.ff3b.1

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