Nonlinear Optics of Random Media Fractal Composites and Metal-Dielectric Films /

• Main Author: Shalaev, Vladimir M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 158
• Subjects: Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Quantum optics.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Quantum Optics.

Nonlinear Optics of Random Media reviews recent advances in in one of the most prominent fields of physics. It provides an outline of the basic models of irregular structures of random inhomogeneous media and the approaches used to describe their linear electromagnetic properties. Nonlinearities in...

Table of Contents:

• Electromagnetic properties of random composites. A review of basic approaches
• Surface-enhanced nonlinear optical phenomena
• Small-particle fractal aggregates
• Self-affine thin films
• Random metal-dielectric films.