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Wave localization at the boundary of disordered photonic lattices

Optics 2015-05-18 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We report on the experimental observation of reduced light energy transport and disorder-induced localization close to a boundary of a truncated one-dimensional (1D) disordered photonic lattice. Our observations uncover that near the boundary a higher level of disorder is required to obtain similar localization than in the bulk.

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@article{arxiv.1003.1032,
  title  = {Wave localization at the boundary of disordered photonic lattices},
  author = {A. Szameit and Y. V. Kartashov and P. Zeil and F. Dreisow and M. Heinrich and R. Keil and S. Nolte and A. Tunnermann and V. A. Vysloukh and L. Torner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1032},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Optics Letters