The optics of disordered materials is rich and full of surprises. Researchers have now found a new form of stochastic resonance in which an image beam is resonantly amplified by noise.
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Wiersma, D. Resonant dust. Nature Photon 4, 274–275 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.97
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