Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media (Topics in Applied Physics)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9783540420316
Subjects: Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; Optics (light); Structural Properties Of Materials; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Astronomy - General; Material Science; Optics; Nanostructure materials; Science / Physics; Science : Astronomy - General; Science : Optics; Technology / Material Science; composites; nanomaterials; Nanostructured materials; Nonlinear Optics
First sentence: In this article (see also Gehr and Boyd [1]), we are interested primarily in composite structures of the sort shown generic-ally in Fig. 1, where any length scales that are present (here a and b), are reasonably well-defined and all much less than the wavelength of light. A. 
Description: 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.