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Speckle Fluctuations and Correlation. A.A. Chabanov, Abe Pena ( UT-San Antonio ) Jing Wang, A.Z. Genack ( Queens College of CUNY). Speckles. Wave propagation in disordered media. wavelength. mean free path. Field. Intensity. Wave diffusion in a disordered medium. wavelength.
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Speckle Fluctuations and Correlation A.A. Chabanov, Abe Pena (UT-San Antonio) Jing Wang, A.Z. Genack (Queens College of CUNY)
Wave propagation in disordered media wavelength mean free path Field Intensity
Wave diffusion in a disordered medium wavelength mean free path Average intensity: Gaussian statistics: only the pairs of identical paths have the same phase and thus give a contribution to the average intensity
Wave diffusion in a disordered medium Diffusion equation for the average intensity: (This equation would yield the Ohm’s law for a disordered conductor)
Probability of return: wave particle A* A • transport reduction • nonlocal correlation • weak localization • non-Gaussian statistics Wave interference
Transmission coefficients a b′ a′ b Transmitted intensity = speckle intensity Total transmission = brightness Transmittance = conductance
Transmission coefficients i.e., Beenakker, RMP (1997)
Statistics of tab and Tab AAC & Genack, PRA (2005) Kogan & Kaveh, PRB (1995)
Alumina sample alumina sphere: d=0.9 cm n=3.14 f=0.068 copper tube: D=7.3 cm
B A C Frequency (GHz) <Iab(t)> time (ns) Transmission in alumina samples σ= 5 MHz L=60 cm, 10,000 sample configurations A: ν=14.7-15.7 GHz, var(sab)=1.18, diffusive wave B: ν=9.95-10.15 GHz, var(sab)=6.18, localized wave C: t=740 ns, var[sab(t)]=20.1, strongly localized wave
Gaussian statistics: Transmitted field distribution
Characteristic and distribution functions of total transmission Nieuwenhuizen & vanRossen (1995) Stoytchev & Genack (1999)
Factorizing of statistics of the field and intensity Fluctuations: Correlations:
Correlation with polarization AAC, Hu & Genack (2004)
Statistics of total transmission In localized regime (only one open channel):
Statistics of transmission quantities in localized regime Pnini (2001)
Conclusions • In a given random configuration, the statistics of transmitted field is Gaussian for both diffusive and localized waves; non-Gaussian mesoscopic field statistics arise in ensemble of configurations due to mesoscopic fluctuations of transmission • In localized regime, the transmitted intensity can be written as a product of three statistically independent variables; two of them have Rayleigh distribution • Future work: In diffusive regime (many channels): ?