Tutorials in complex photonic media
By: editors, Mikhail A. Noginov ... [et al.].
Publisher: SPIE Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bellingham, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780819477736
Description: The field of complex photonic media encompasses many leading-edge areas in physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, and engineering. In [i]Tutorials in Complex Photonic Media[/i], leading experts have brought together 19 tutorials on breakthroughs in modern optics, such as negative refraction, chiral media, plasmonics, photonic crystals, and organic photonics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online version available. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/3.832717
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: List of contributors; title: List of abbreviations; title: 1. Negative refraction / Martin W. McCall and Graeme Dewar. 1.1. Introduction; title: 1.2. Background; title: 1.3. Beyond natural media: waves that run backward; title: 1.4. Wires and rings; title: 1.5. Experimental confirmation; title: 1.6. The "perfect" lens; title: 1.7. The formal criterion for achieving negative phase velocity propagation; title: 1.8. Fermat's principle and negative space; title: 1.9. Cloaking; title: 1.10. Conclusion; title: Appendix I. The e([omega]) of a square wire array; title: Appendix II. Physics of the wire array's plasma frequency and damping rate; title: References; title: 2. Optical hyperspace: negative refractive index and subwavelength imaging / Leonid V. Alekseyev, Zubin Jacob, and Evgenii Narimanov. 2.1. Introduction; title: 2.2. Nonmagnetic negative refraction; title: 2.3. Hyperbolic dispersion: materials; title: 2.4. Applications; title: 2.5. Conclusion; title: References.; title: 3. Magneto-optics and the Kerr effect with ferromagnetic materials / Allan D. Boardman and Neil King. 3.1. Introduction to magneto-optical materials and concepts; title: 3.2. Reflection of light from a plane ferromagnetic surface; title: 3.3. Enhancing the Kerr effect with attenuated total reflection; title: 3.4. Numerical investigations of attenuated total reflection; title: 3.5. Conclusions; title: References; title: 4. Symmetry properties of nonlinear magneto-optical effects / Yutaka Kawabe. 4.1. Introduction; title: 4.2. Nonlinear optics in magnetic materials; title: 4.3. Magnetic-field-induced second-harmonic generation; title: 4.4. Effects due to an optical magnetic field or magnetic dipole moment transition; title: 4.5. Experiments; title: References; title: 5. Optical magnetism in plasmonic metamaterials / Gennady Shvets and Yaroslav A. Urzhumov. 5.1. Introduction; title: 5.2. Why is optical magnetism difficult to achieve?; title: 5.3. Effective quasistatic dielectric permittivity of a plasmonic metamaterial; title: 5.4. Summary; title: 5.5. Appendix. Electromagnetic red shifts of plasmonic resonances; title: References.; title: 6. Chiral photonic media / Ian Hodgkinson and Levi Bourke. 6.1. Introduction; title: 6.2. Stratified anisotropic media; title: 6.3. Chiral architectures and characteristic matrices; title: 6.4. Reflectance spectra and polarization response maps; title: 6.5. Summary; title: References; title: 7. Optical vortices / Kevin O'Holleran, Mark R. Dennis, and Miles J. Padgett. 7.1. Introduction; title: 7.2. Locating vortex lines; title: 7.3. Making beams containing optical vortices; title: 7.4. Topology of vortex lines; title: 7.5. Computer simulation of vortex structures; title: 7.6. Vortex structures in random fields; title: 7.7. Experiments for visualizing vortex structures; title: 7.8. Conclusions; title: References; title: 8. Photonic crystals: from fundamentals to functional photonic opals / Durga P. Aryal, Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, and Ortwin Hess. 8.1. Introduction; title: 8.2. Principles of photonic crystals; title: 8.3. One-dimensional photonic crystals; title: 8.4. Generalization to two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals; title: 8.5. Physics of Inverse-Opal Photonic Crystals; title: 8.6. Double-Inverse-Opal Photonic Crystals (DIOPCs); title: 8.7. Conclusion; title: 8.8. Appendix: Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method; title: References; title: 9. Wave interference and modes in random media / Azriel Z. Genack and Sheng Zhang. 9.1. Introduction; title: 9.2. Wave interference; title: 9.3. Modes; title: 9.4. Conclusions; title: References; title: 10. Chaotic behavior of random lasers / Diederik S. Wiersma, Sushil Mujumdar, Stefano Cavalieri, Renato Torre, Gian-Luca Oppo, Stefano Lepri. 10.1. Introduction; title: 10.2. Experiments on emission spectra; title: 10.3. Experiments on speckle patterns; title: 10.4. Modeling; title: 10.5. Lévy statistics in random laser emission; title: 10.6. Discussion; title: References.; title: 11. Lasing in random media / Hui Cao. 11.1. Introduction; title: 11.2. Random lasers with incoherent feedback; title: 11.3. Random lasers with coherent feedback; title: 11.4. Potential applications of random lasers; title: References. Color plate section. 12. Feedback in random lasers / Mikhail A. Noginov. 12.1. Introduction; title: 12.2. The concept of a laser; title: 12.3. Lasers with nonresonant feedback and random lasers; title: 12.4. Photon migration and localization in scattering media and their applications to random lasers; title: 12.5. Neodymium random lasers with nonresonant feedback; title: 12.6. ZnO random lasers with resonant feedback; title: 12.7. Stimulated emission feedback: from nonresonant to resonant and back to nonresonant; title: 12.8. Summary of various random laser operation regimes; title: References; title: 13. Optical metamaterials with zero loss and plasmonic nanolasers / Andrey K. Sarychev. 13.1. Introduction; title: 13.2. Magnetic plasmon resonance; title: 13.3. Electrodynamics of a nanowire resonator; title: 13.4. Capacitance and inductance of two parallel wires; title: 13.5. Lumped model of a resonator filled with an active medium; title: 13.6. Interaction of nanontennas with an active host medium; title: 13.7. Plasmonic nanolasers and optical magnetism; title: 13.8. Conclusions; title: References.; title: 14. Resonance energy transfer: theoretical foundations and developing applications / David L. Andrews. 14.1. Introduction; title: 14.2. Electromagnetic origins; title: 14.3. Features of the pair transfer rate; title: 14.4. Energy transfer in heterogeneous solids; title: 14.5. Directed energy transfer; title: 14.6. Developing applications; title: 14.7. Conclusion; title: References; title: 15. Optics of nanostructured materials from first principles / Vladimir I. Gavrilenko. 15.1. Introduction; title: 15.2. Optical response from first principles; title: 15.3. Effect of the local field in optics; title: 15.4. Electrons in quantum confined systems; title: 15.5. Cavity quantum electrodynamics; title: 15.6. Optical Raman spectroscopy of nanostructures; title: 15.7. Concluding remarks; title: Appendix I. Electron energy structure and standard density functional theory; title: Appendix II. Optical functions within perturbation theory; title: Appendix III. Evaluation of the polarization function including the local field effect; title: Appendix IV. Optical field Hamiltonian in second quantization representation; title: References.; title: 16 Organic photonic materials / Larry R. Dalton, Philip A. Sullivan, Denise H. Bale, Scott R. Hammond, Benjamin C. Olbrict, Harrison Rommel, Bruce Eichinger, and Bruce H. Robinson. 16.1 Preface; title: 16.2 Introduction; title: 16.3 Effects of dielectric permittivity and dispersion; title: 16.4 Complex dendrimer materials: effects of covalent bonds; title: 16.5 Binary Chromophore Organic Glasses (BCOGs); title: 16.6 Thermal and photochemical stability: lattice hardening; title: 16.7 Thermal and photochemical stability: measurement; title: 16.8 Devices and applications; title: 16.9 Summary and conclusions; title: 16.10. Appendix. Linear and nonlinear polarization; title: References.; title: 17. Charge transport and optical effects in disordered organic semiconductors / Harry H. L. Kwok, You-Lin Wu, and Tai-Ping Sun. 17.1. Introduction; title: 17.2. Charge transport; title: 17.3. Impedance spectroscopy: bias and temperature dependence; title: 17.4. Transient spectroscopy; title: 17.5. Thermoelectric effect; title: 17.6. Exciton formation; title: 17.7. Space-charge effect; title: 17.8. Charge transport in the field-effect structure; title: References; title: 18. Holography and its applications / H. John Caulfield and Chandra S. Vikram. 18.1. Introduction; title: 18.2. Basic information on holograms; title: 18.2.1 Hologram types; title: 18.3. Recording materials for holographic metamaterials; title: 18.4. Computer-generated holograms; title: 18.5. Simple functionalities of holographic materials; title: 18.6. Phase conjugation and holographic optical elements; title: 18.7. Related applications and procedures; title: References; title: In memoriam: Chandra S. Vikram; title: 19. Slow and fast light / Joseph E. Vornehm, Jr. and Robert W. Boyd. 19.1. Introduction; title: 19.2. Slow light based on material resonances; title: 19.3. Slow light based on material structure; title: 19.4. Additional considerations; title: 19.5. Potential applications; title: References; title: About the editors; title: Index.