Photon transport enhanced by transverse Anderson localization in disordered superlattices

P Hsieh, C Chung, JF McMillan, M Tsai, M Lu… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Controlling the flow of light at subwavelength scales provides access to functionalities such
as negative or zero index of refraction, transformation optics, cloaking, metamaterials and …

Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

F Riboli, N Caselli, S Vignolini, F Intonti, K Vynck… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Disordered photonic materials can diffuse and localize light through random multiple
scattering, offering opportunities to study mesoscopic phenomena, control light–matter …

Observation of Anderson localization in disordered nanophotonic structures

HH Sheinfux, Y Lumer, G Ankonina, AZ Genack… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Anderson localization is an interference effect crucial to the understanding of waves in
disordered media. However, localization is expected to become negligible when the …

Band gap formation and Anderson localization in disordered photonic materials with structural correlations

LS Froufe-Pérez, M Engel, JJ Sáenz… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Disordered dielectric materials with structural correlations show unconventional optical
behavior: They can be transparent to long-wavelength radiation, while at the same time …

Interplay between evanescence and disorder in deep subwavelength photonic structures

H Herzig Sheinfux, I Kaminer, AZ Genack… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Deep subwavelength features are expected to have minimal impact on wave transport. Here
we show that in contrast to this common understanding, disorder can have a dramatic effect …

Observation of Anderson localization beyond the spectrum of the disorder

A Dikopoltsev, S Weidemann, M Kremer… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Anderson localization predicts that transport in one-dimensional uncorrelated disordered
systems comes to a complete halt, experiencing no transport whatsoever. However, in …

Subdiffusive wave transport and weak localization transition in three-dimensional stealthy hyperuniform disordered systems

F Sgrignuoli, S Torquato, L Dal Negro - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The purpose of this work is to understand the fundamental connection between structural
correlations and light localization in three-dimensional (3D) open scattering systems of finite …

Transverse localization of transmission eigenchannels

H Yılmaz, CW Hsu, A Yamilov, H Cao - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
Transmission eigenchannels are building blocks of coherent wave transport in diffusive
media, and selective excitation of individual eigenchannels can lead to diverse transport …

Nonuniversal Intensity Correlations in a Two-Dimensional<? format?> Anderson-Localizing Random Medium

PD Garcia, S Stobbe, I Söllner, P Lodahl - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
Complex dielectric media often appear opaque because light traveling through them is
scattered multiple times. Although the light scattering is a random process, different paths …

Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices

T Schwartz, G Bartal, S Fishman, M Segev - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
One of the most interesting phenomena in solid-state physics is Anderson localization,
which predicts that an electron may become immobile when placed in a disordered lattice …