Abstract

We present time-resolved measurements of light transport throughstrongly scattering macroporous gallium phosphide at various vacuumwavelengths between 705 nm and 855 nm. Within this range the transportmean free path is strongly wavelength dependent, whereas the observedenergy velocity is shown to be independent of the wavelength. Weconclude that microscopic resonances, which can strongly slow down thediffusion process in, e.g., granular TiO2, are absent in macroporousgallium phosphide in the wavelength region of concern.

Authors

W.H. Peeters, A. P. Mosk, Vellekoop, I. M., A. Lagendijk

Year of publication

2008

Date published

03/2008

Journal

Phys. Rev. A.

Volume

77

Pages

035803: 1-4

Keywords

diffusion, light transport, porous materials