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Intensity fluctuations in the presence of weak localization of light in a disordered medium

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It is shown that the intensity fluctuations in the speckle pattern arising when light is reflected from a disordered sample are negatively correlated. The relative amplitude of the correlations is two times larger in the exactly backward direction than far from this direction.

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 69, No. 2, 104–109 (25 January 1999)

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Rogozkin, D.B. Intensity fluctuations in the presence of weak localization of light in a disordered medium. Jetp Lett. 69, 117–122 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.568000

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