Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Nanocomposite Materials for Nonlinear Optics Based on Local Field Effects

   • John E. Sipe, Robert W. Boyd

   Pages 1-19

3. Response of Composite Media Made of Weakly Nonlinear Constituents

   • David J. Bergman, David G. Stroud

   Pages 19-41

4. Third-Order Nonlinear Properties of Au Clusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films

   • Hongru Ma, Ping Sheng, George K. L. Wong

   Pages 41-62

5. Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quasi-Periodic One-Dimensional Structures

   • Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, Marco Centini, Giuseppe D’Aguanno, Michael Scalora, Mark J. Bloemer et al.

   Pages 63-92

6. Optical Nonlinearities of Fractal Composites

   • Vladimir M. Shalaev

   Pages 93-114

7. Nonlinear Optical Effects and Selective Photomodification of Colloidal Silver Aggregates

   • Vladimir P. Drachev, Sergey V. Perminov, Sergey G. Rautian, Vladimir P. Safonov

   Pages 115-148

8. Fractal-Microcavity Composites: Giant Optical Responses

   • Won-Tae Kim, Vladimir P. Safonov, Vladimir P. Drachev, Viktor A. Podolskiy, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Robert L. Armstrong

   Pages 149-168

9. Theory of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Metal—Dielectric Composites

   • Andrey K. Sarychev, Vladimir M. Shalaev

   Pages 169-186

10. Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Nonlinearities in Percolating 2-D Metal—Dielectric Films: Calculation of the Localized Giant Field and Their Observation in SNOM

    • Patrice Gadenne, Jean C. Rivoal

    Pages 187-215

11. SERS and the Single Molecule

    • Martin Moskovits, Li-Lin Tay, Jody Yang, Thomas Haslett

    Pages 215-227

12. Nonlinear Raman Probe of Single Molecules Attached to Colloidal Silver and Gold Clusters

    • Katrin Kneipp, Harald Kneipp, Irving Itzkan, Ramachandra R. Dasari, Michael S. Feld, Mildred S. Dresselhaus

    Pages 227-249

13. Electromagnetic Response of Ferromagnetic Cermet: Superparamagnetic Transition

    • Mireille Gadenne

    Pages 249-274

14. Manipulating Light with a Magnetic Field

    • Bart A. van Tiggelen, Geert L. J. A. Rikken

    Pages 275-302

15. Random Lasers with Coherent Feedback

    • Hui Cao

    Pages 303-330

16. Localization Phenomena in Elastic Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering

    • Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

    Pages 331-359

17. Multiple-Scattering Phenomena in the Second-Harmonic Generation of Light Reflected from and Transmitted Through Randomly Rough Metal Surfaces

    • Tamara A. Leskova, Alexei A. Maradudin, Eugenio R. Méndez

    Pages 359-443

18. Back Matter

    Pages 443-453

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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.

• Optics
• composites
• nanomaterials
• nonlinear optics
• optical properties of materials
• optoelectronics
• random lasers
• spectroscopy
• thin films
• colloid
• composite material
• laser
• molecule
• nanocomposite
• nanomaterial
• nanostructure
• optics
• scattering
• SNOM
• surface

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"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."

• School of Electronical and omputer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Vladimir M. Shalaev

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