Shalaev V.M. (ed.) Optical Properties of Nanostructured Random Media

Springer, 2002. - 450 pp.
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 Based on Local Field Eff ects (by John E. Sipe and Robert W. Boyd).
Response of Composite Media Made of Weakly Nonlinear Constituents (by David J. Bergman and David G. Stroud).
Third-Order Nonlinear Properties of Au Clusters Containing Dielectric Thin Films (by Hongru Ma, Ping Sheng, and George K. L. Wong).
Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quasi-Periodic One-Dimensional Structures (by Concita Sibilia, Mario Bertolotti, Marco Centini, Giuseppe D'Aguanno, Michael Scalora, Mark J. Bloemer, and Charles M. Bowden).
Optical Nonlinearities of Fractal Composites (by Vladimir M. Shalaev).
Nonlinear Optical Effects and Selective Photomodification of Colloidal Silver Aggregates (by Vladimir P. Drachev, Sergey V. Perminov, Sergey G. Rautian, and Vladimir P. Safonov).
Fractal-Microcavity Composites: Giant Optical Responses (by Won-Tae Kim, Vladimir P. Safonov, Vladimir P. Drachev, Viktor A. Podolskiy, Vladimir M. Shalaev, and Robert L. Armstrong).
Theory of Nonlinear Optical Responses in Metal-Dielectric Composites (by Audrey K. Sarychev and Vladimir M. Shalaev).
Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Nonlinearities in Percolating 2-D Metal-Dielectric Films: Calculation of the Localized Giant Field and Their Observation in SNOM (by Patrice Gadenne and Jean C. Rivoal).
SERS and the Single Molecule (by Martin Moskovits, Li-Lin Tay, Jody Yang and Thomas Haslett).
Nonlinear Raman Probe of Single Molecules
Attached to Colloidal Silver and Gold Clusters (by Katrin Kneipp, Harald Kneipp, Irving Itzkan, Ramachandra R. Dasari, Michael S. Feld and Mildred S. Dresselhaus).
Electromagnetic Response of Ferromagnetic Cermet: Superparamagnetic Transition (by Mireille Gadenne).
Manipulating Light with a Magnetic Field (by Bart A. van Tiggelen and Geert L. J. A. Rikken).
Random Lasers with Coherent Feedback (by Hui Cao).
Localization Phenomena in Elastic Surface Plasmon Polariton Scattering (by Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi).
Multiple-Scattering Phenomena in the Second-Harmonic Generation of Light Reflected from and Transmitted Through Randomly Rough Metal Surfaces (by Tamara A. Leskova, Alexei A. Maradudin and Eugenio R. Mendez).