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OPTICAL MATERIALS EXPRESS
Volume 2, Issue 11, Pages 1496-1503Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001496
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- National Science Foundation [1029547]
- Div Of Electrical, Commun & Cyber Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1029547] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We report the first observation of transverse Anderson localization in a glass optical fiber. The strong localization happens near the outer boundary of the fiber and no trace of localization is observed in the central regions. However, these observations complement previous reports that the boundary of a disordered medium has a de-localizing effect. Our observations can be explained by considering the non-uniform distribution of disorder in the fiber, where the substantially larger disorder near the outer boundary of the fiber offsets the de-localizing effect of the boundary. (c) 2012 Optical Society of America
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