Light fields in complex media: Mesoscopic scattering meets wave control

S Rotter, S Gigan - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The newly emerging field of wave front sha** in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

Light in correlated disordered media

K Vynck, R Pierrat, R Carminati, LS Froufe-Pérez… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

Disordered photonics

DS Wiersma - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

Anderson localization of light

M Segev, Y Silberberg, DN Christodoulides - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the Anderson localization of light and a wide variety of associated
phenomena have come to the forefront of research. Numerous investigations have been …

Absence of Anderson localization of light in a random ensemble of point scatterers

SE Skipetrov, IM Sokolov - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
As discovered by Philip Anderson in 1958, strong disorder can block propagation of waves
and lead to the localization of wavelike excitations in space. Anderson localization of light is …

Measurement of the mobility edge for 3D Anderson localization

G Semeghini, M Landini, P Castilho, S Roy… - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Anderson localization is a universal phenomenon affecting non-interacting quantum
particles in a disordered environment. In three spatial dimensions, theory predicts a …

Anderson localization of electromagnetic waves in three dimensions

A Yamilov, SE Skipetrov, TW Hughes, M Minkov, Z Yu… - Nature physics, 2023 - nature.com
Anderson localization is a halt of diffusive wave propagation in disordered systems. Despite
extensive studies over the past 40 years, Anderson localization of light in three dimensions …

Tailored disorder in photonics: learning from nature

M Rothammer, C Zollfrank, K Busch… - Advanced Optical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Disorder and photonics have long been seen as natural adversaries and designers of
optical systems have often driven systems to perfection by minimizing deviations from the …

Observation of two-dimensional Anderson localisation of ultracold atoms

DH White, TA Haase, DJ Brown… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Anderson localisation—the inhibition of wave propagation in disordered media—is a
surprising interference phenomenon which is particularly intriguing in two-dimensional (2D) …

Anderson light localization in biological nanostructures of native silk

SH Choi, SW Kim, Z Ku, MA Visbal-Onufrak… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Light in biological media is known as freely diffusing because interference is negligible.
Here, we show Anderson light localization in quasi-two-dimensional protein nanostructures …