We report a search for photon localization using a new experimental method which measures the effects of multiple elastic scattering on the shape of a short laser pulse injected into a random optical medium. Several systems have been examined which exhibit diffusive photon transport, but no evidence for strong localization. A theoretical assessment of candidate systems which might exhibit a photon mobility edge is presented.
We examine the effect of long-range spatially correlated disorder on the Anderson localization transition in $d=2+\ensuremath{\epsilon}$ dimensions. This is described as a phase...
A frequency regime in which electromagnetic waves in a strongly disordered medium undergo Anderson localization in $d=3$ dimensions is suggested. In the presence of weak dissipa...
The effect of a small imaginary part ${\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{2}$ to the dielectric constant on the propagation of waves in a disordered medium near the Anderson localization t...
We report the observation of weak localization of light in a random medium. In a sample consisting of a highly concentrated suspension of polystyrene particles in water, polariz...
We have carried out an experimental study of weak localization of photons in a rigid, nonabsorbing, disordered medium. Unlike recent results reported for particles in a fluid, w...
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