Wave Transport in disordered waveguides: closed channel contributions and the coherent and diffuse fields

Abstract

We study the wave transport through a disordered system inside a waveguide. The expectation value of the complex reflection and transmission coefficients (the coherent fields) as well as the transmittance and reflectance are obtained numerically. The numerical results show that the averages of the coherent fields are only relevant for direct processes, while the transmittance and reflectance are mainly dominated by the diffuse intensities, which come from the statistical fluctuations of the fields.