Title :
Appearance of a photonic thermalization gap in symmetry-constrained anderson-disordered photonic lattices
Author :
Kondakci, H. Esat ; Abouraddy, A.F. ; Saleh, B.E.A.
Author_Institution :
CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
We show that coherent light traveling through a 1-D lattice of coupled waveguides with off-diagonal disorder exhibits super-thermal statistics (g(2) > 2) with a photonic thermalization gap at asymptotic propagation distances.
Keywords :
light coherence; optical lattices; optical waveguides; 1-D lattice; asymptotic propagation distances; coherent light; coupled waveguides; off-diagonal disorder; photonic thermalization gap; super-thermal statistics; symmetry-constrained anderson-disordered photonic lattices; Arrays; Correlation; Lattices; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
