[Topics in Applied Physics] Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media Volume 82 || Theory of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Metal—Dielectric Composites

✍ Scribed by Shalaev, Vladimir M.

• Book ID: 121441486
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 470 KB
• Edition: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3540420312
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44948-5_8

✦ Synopsis

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. Nanocomposite Materials For Nonlinear Optics -- Response Of Composite Media With Nonlinear Constituents -- Properties Of Au Clusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films -- Linear And Nonlinear Optical Properties Of Quasiperiodic 1d Structures -- Optical Nonlinearities Of Fractal Composites -- Nonlinear Optical Effects Of Silver Colloidal Aggregates -- Fractal Microcavity Composites: Giant Optical Responses -- Theory Of Nonlinear Optical Responses In Metal-dielectric Composites -- Surface Plasmon Enhanced Nonlinearities In Percolating Metal-dielectric Films -- Sers And The Single Molecule -- Nonlinear Raman Probe Of Single Molecules Attached To Silver And Gold Colloidal Clusters -- Electromagnetic Response Of Ferromagnetic Cermets -- Manipulating Light With A Magnetic Field -- Random Lasers With Coherent Feedback -- Localization Phenomena In Elastic Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering -- Multiple Scattering Phenomena In Second-harmonic Generation Of Light. Vladimir M. Shalaev (ed.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.