Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2002-12-10
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
18 pages, 5 figures, "The Anderson Transition and its Ramifications-Localisation, Quantum Interference, and Interactions", 'Le
Scientific paper
A pulse of light, injected into a weakly disordered dielectric medium, typically, will leave its initial location in a short time, by diffusion. However, due to some rare configurations of disorder, there is a possibility of formation of high quality resonators which can trap light for a long time. We present a rather detailed, quantitative study of such random resonators and of the "almost localized" states that they can support. After presenting a brief review of the earlier work on the subject, we concentrate on a detailed computation of the "prefactor": knowledge of the latter is crucial for varifying the viability of the random rasonators and their areal density. Both short range disorder (white noise) and correlated disorder are studied, and the important effect of the correlation radius, $R_c$, on the probability of formation of resonators with a given quality factor $Q$ is discussed. The random resonators are "self-formed", in the sense that no sharp features (like Mie scatterers or other "resonant entities") are introduced: our model is a featureless dielectric medium with fluctuating dielectric constant. We point out the relevance of the random resonators to the recently discovered phenomenon of coherent "random" lasing and review the existing work on that subject. We emphasize, however, that the random resonators exist already in the {\em passive} medium: gain is only needed to "make them visible".
Apalkov Vadim M.
Raikh Mikhail E.
Shapiro Boris
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