Optical transmission matrix as a probe of the photonic interaction strength
Optics
2016-10-19 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We demonstrate that optical transmission matrices (TM) of disordered complex media provide a powerful tool to extract the photonic interaction strength, independent of surface effects. We measure TM of strongly scattering GaP nanowires and plot the singular value density of the measured matrices and a random matrix model. By varying the free parameters of the model, the transport mean free path and effective refractive index, we retrieve the photonic interaction strength. From numerical simulations we conclude that TM statistics is hardly sensitive to surface effects, in contrast to enhanced backscattering or total transmission based methods.
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@article{arxiv.1511.04766,
title = {Optical transmission matrix as a probe of the photonic interaction strength},
author = {Duygu Akbulut and Tom Strudley and Jacopo Bertolotti and Erik P. A. M. Bakkers and Ad Lagendijk and Otto L. Muskens and Willem L. Vos and Allard P. Mosk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.04766},
year = {2016}
}
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5 pages 4 figures