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Dynamic Correlation in Wave Propagation in Random Media A.A. Chabanov,1,2 B. Hu,1 and A.Z. Genack1 1Department of Physics, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA 2 CEMS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA (Dated: February 20, 2004) 4 0 We report time-resolved measurements of the statistics of pulsed transmission through quasi-one- 0 dimensional dielectric media with static disorder. The normalized intensity correlation function 2 with displacement and polarization rotation for an incident pulse of linewidth σ at delay time t is a function only of the field correlation function, which is identical to that found for steady- b state excitation, and of κσ (t), the residual degree of intensity correlation at points at which the e field correlation function vanishes. The dynamic probability distribution of normalized intensity F depends only upon κσ (t). Steady-state statistics are recovered in the limit σ→0, in which κσ=0 is 2 the steady-state degree of correlation. 2 PACS numbers: 42.25.Dd, 42.25.Bs, 05.40.-a ] n n The statistics of steady-state classical wave propaga- much greater than a wavelength. In the absence of in- - s tion [1, 2, 3] and electronic conductance [4] in disordered elastic processes, the probability distributions of both i d systems reflect the superposition of partial waves follow- intensity and total transmission normali