Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Interplay between evanescence and disorder in deep subwavelength photonic structures

  • Hanan Herzig Sheinfux,
  • Ido Kaminer,
  • Azriel Z. Genack,
  • Mordechai Segev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12927
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Features much smaller than the wavelength are not expected to have a significant impact on the transport of a wave. Here, the authors show that Anderson localization can dominate light transport in a one-dimensional disordered system, even when the disordered features are a thousand times smaller than the wavelength.