Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shalaev, Vladimir M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 82
• Subjects: Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Quantum optics.; Nanotechnology.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Quantum Optics.
• Physical Description: XIV, 454 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540449485
• ISSN: 0303-4216 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44948-5

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.