light propagation (IMAGE)

University of Rostock

light propagation

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The figure shows the experimentally measured light propagation: Initially diverging light is intermittently focused into a tiny spatial region by disorder. After some time, the signal suddenly appears at an entirely different position, seemingly without having to traverse the intervening medium.

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From: S. Weidemann, M. Kremer et al. Nature Phot. 16 (2021). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-021-00823-w

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