Perfect imaging through a disordered waveguide lattice

It is experimentally demonstrated that perfect imaging is possible in disordered wave guiding media, provided that the disorder is off-diagonal, i.e., that only the spacing varies randomly between the otherwise identical lattice sites. On-diagonal disorder or Kerr nonlinearity destroys the imaging.

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Published inOptics letters Vol. 37; no. 5; p. 809
Main Authors Keil, Robert, Lahini, Yoav, Shechtman, Yoav, Heinrich, Matthias, Pugatch, Rami, Dreisow, Felix, Tünnermann, Andreas, Nolte, Stefan, Szameit, Alexander
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.2012
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Summary:It is experimentally demonstrated that perfect imaging is possible in disordered wave guiding media, provided that the disorder is off-diagonal, i.e., that only the spacing varies randomly between the otherwise identical lattice sites. On-diagonal disorder or Kerr nonlinearity destroys the imaging.
ISSN:1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/OL.37.000809