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Searching for photon localization in the time domain.

01 January 1987

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We report a search for photon localization using a new experimental method which measures the effects of multiple elastic scattering on the shape of a short laser pulse injected into a random optical medium. Several systems have been examined which exhibit diffusive photon transport, but on evidence for strong localization. A theoretical assessment of candidate systems which might exhibit a photon mobility edge is presented.