Electromagnetic waves in disordered dielectric media: coupled-dipole model

Turkish Journal of Physics 23, 887 (1999)

Arkadiusz ORŁOWSKI and Marian RUSEK

An effective approach to multiple scattering of electromagnetic waves by disordered dielectric media is developed. A self-consistent energy-conserving coupled-dipole model is used. Applications to the Anderson localization of electromagnetic waves are presented. A complete set of Maxwell's equations is used to describe the propagation of waves and the vector character of the electromagnetic field is fully taken into account.