Abstract

Wave propagation through multiple scattering media has been an active research field since the discovery of Anderson localization [1]. This interest has amongst other resulted in the discovery of classical wave phenomena such as enhanced coherent back scattering [2] and universal conductance fluctuations [3]. Only recently focus has reached the combination of quantum optics and multiple scattering, see e.g. references [4–7] and references therein. The experimental realization of strongly enhanced light-matter interaction in disordered photonic crystal waveguides, enabling cavity quantum electrodynamics with Anderson-localized modes, potentially makes disordered structures useful in future quantum information processing [4].

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