Synopses & Reviews
This book reviews recent advances in one of the most prominent fields of physics. The optics of random media displays a rich variety of effects, and some of these effects are hardly intuitive. Localization of various sorts of optical excitations occur and recur in a wide gamut of disordered systems, such as inhomogeneous media, nanocomposite materials, layered structures, metal films and metal-dielectric composites. The contributors to the book are world best experts in the optics of random media; they provide a state-of-the-art review of recent developments in the field including nonlinear optical and magneto-optical properties, Raman and hyper-Raman scattering, laser action, plasmon excitation and localized giant fields, imaging and spectroscopy of random media.
Review
OPTICS & PHOTONICS NEWS "The authors of these collected papers make an excellent contribution to the discussion. Each chapter is well-structured, with up-to-date, in-depth theoretical and experimental analyses and extensive references. Among the topics covered: fractal-microcavity composites, random lasers with coherent feedback and nonlinear optical responses in metal-dielectric composites. The book will be appreciated by engineers in quantum electronics and chemical engineers working in the area of materials process technologies and nanostructured materials."
Synopsis
The contributors to the book are world best experts in the optics of random media; they provide a state-of-the-art review of recent developments in the field including nonlinear optical and magneto-optical properties, Raman and hyper-Raman scattering, laser action, plasmon excitation and localized giant fields, imaging and spectroscopy of random media
Synopsis
Random inhomogeneous media may possess unique physical properties that are significantly enhanced and may attain a level of practical importance and versatility that rivals or surpasses their geometrically ordered counterparts. Making judicious use of these enhancement effects, as well as of other aspects of the many complex resonances that distinguish these systems, can lead to new and unexpected physics and many applications. Localization of various sorts of optical excitations occur and recur in a wide gamut of disordered systems, leading to the enhancement of many optical phenomena, especially nonlinear processes. The book reviews recent advances in the nonlinear optics of random media and discusses numerous applications based on the unique properties of nanostructured composite materials. The contributing authors are world best experts in the field and provide a state-of-the-art description of the world of the optics of random media.
Synopsis
The edited book includes 17 contributions from renown authors and covers the complete field of nonlinear optics of nanostructured random media. With numerous up-to-date references.
Table of Contents
Nanocomposite Materials for Nonlinear Optics.- Response of Composite Media with Nonlinear Constituents.- Properties of Au Clusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films.- Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quasiperiodic 1D Structures.- Optical Nonlinearities of Fractal Composites.- Nonlinear Optical Effects of Silver Colloidal Aggregates.- Fractal Microcavity Composites: Giant Optical Responses.- Theory of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Metal-Dielectric Composites.- Surface Plasmon Enhanced Nonlinearities in Percolating Metal-Dielectric Films.- SERS and the Single Molecule.- Nonlinear Raman Probe of Single Molecules Attached to Silver and Gold Colloidal Clusters.- Electromagnetic Response of Ferromagnetic Cermets.- Manipulating Light with a Magnetic Field.- Random Lasers with Coherent Feedback.- Localization Phenomena in Elastic Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering.- Multiple Scattering Phenomena in Second-Harmonic Generation of Light.