Diffusive and localization behavior of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random medium

Details Diffusive and localization behavior of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random medium Diffusive and localization behavior of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random medium

2003-06-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306067v1

Phys. Rev. E. 68, 046608 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.046608

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B {\bf 10}, 391 (1993)). A set of self-consistent equations is presented, accounting for the multiple scattering in the system, and is then solved numerically. A strong localization regime is discovered in the frequency domain. The transport properties within, near the edge of and nearly outside the localization regime are investigated for different parameters such as filling factor and system size. The results show that within the localization regime, waves are trapped near the transmitting source. Meanwhile, the diffusive waves follow an intuitive but expected picture. That is, they increase with travelling path as more and more random scattering incurs, followed by a saturation, then start to decay exponentially when the travelling path is large enough, signifying the localization effect. For the cases that the frequencies are near the boundary of or outside the localization regime, the results of diffusive waves are compared with the diffusion approximation, showing less encouraging agreement as in other systems (Asatryan, et al., Phys. Rev. E {\bf 67}, 036605 (2003).)

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