The edited book includes 17 contributions from renown authors and covers the complete field of nonlinear optics of nanostructured random media. With numerous up-to-date references.

The editor is an internationally recognized expert in the field of optics of nanocomposite materials Brings together the best researchers to present a state-of-the-art description of the optics of nanostructured random media Numerous up-to-date references

Klappentext
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.

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