Incomplete Photonic Band Gap as Inferred from the Speckle Pattern of Scattered Light Waves

2004/01/19 by V. M. Apalkov, M. E. Raikh, B. Shapiro +1 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Band gap #Condensed matter physics #Intensity (physics) #Optics #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic and Optical Devices #Photonic crystal #Photonics #Physics #Random lasers and scattering media #Speckle pattern #cond-mat.mes-hall

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.253902

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 253902 (2004) · 6 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2004/01/19 · openalex publication_date 2004/06/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on intensity correlations of the waves transmitted through disordered media, we demonstrate that the speckle pattern from disordered photonic crystal with incomplete band gap represents a sensitive tool for determination of the stop-band width. We establish the quantitative relation between this width and the angular anisotropy of the intensity correlation function.

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