Fluctuations in the one-port scattering and normalized impedance matrices in three polygonal and one chaotic time-reversal invariant microwave billiards are experimentally investigated, in several levels of coupling and absorption, at room temperature and at 77 K. The observed distributions of reflection coefficient, phase of the scattering matrix, resistance and reactance exhibit no fingerprint of a given geometry. At low frequencies, the results are consistent with earlier theoretical models by López, Mello and Seligman and by Zheng, Antonsen and Ott, who independently predicted that the scattering fluctuations might be the same for the Wigner and Poisson level spacing distributions in the lossless cavity. The uniqueness of the observed scattering statistics at higher absorption levels is discussed with respect to inherent limitations posed by the experimental technique.
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