Abstract
We investigate what would happen to the time dependence of a pulse reflected by a disordered single-mode waveguide if it is closed at one end, not by an ordinary mirror, but by a phase-conjugating mirror. We find that the waveguide acts like a virtual cavity with resonance frequency equal to the working frequency of the phase-conjugating mirror. The decay in time of the average power spectrum of the reflected pulse is delayed for frequencies near In the presence of localization the resonance width is with L the length of the waveguide, l the mean free path, and the scattering time. Inside this frequency range the decay of the average power spectrum is delayed up to times
- Received 22 October 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.65.174203
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