Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media

by Shalaev, Vladimir M.

• ISBN13: 9783540420316
• ISBN10: 3540420312
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Nanocomposite Materials for Nonlinear Optics Based on Local Field Effects	p. 1
Response of Composite Media Made of Weakly Nonlinear Constituents	p. 19
Third-Order Nonlinear Properties of Au Clusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films	p. 41
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quasi-Periodic One-Dimensional Structures	p. 63
Optical Nonlinearities of Fractal Composites	p. 93
Nonlinear Optical Effects and Selective Photomodification of Colloidal Silver Aggregates	p. 113
Fractal-Microcavity Composites: Giant Optical Responses	p. 149
Theory of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Metal-Dielectric Composites	p. 169
Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Nonlinearities in Percolating 2-D Metal-Dielectric Films: Calculation of the Localized Giant Field and Their Observation in SNOM	p. 185
SERS and the Single Molecule	p. 215
Nonlinear Raman Probe of Single Molecules Attached to Colloidal Silver and Gold Clusters	p. 227
Electromagnetic Response of Ferromagnetic Cermet: Superparamagnetic Transition	p. 249
Manipulating Light with a Magnetic Field	p. 275
Random Lasers with Coherent Feedback	p. 303
Localization Phenomena in Elastic Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering	p. 329
Multiple-Scattering Phenomena in the Second-Harmonic Generation of Light Reflected from and Transmitted Through Randomly Rough Metal Surfaces	p. 359
Index	p. 443
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